xterm is not installed in cvs
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Jul 11 13:29:47 PDT 2005
Thomas Zander wrote:
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> I was kind of surprised that after a make World into a clean /usr/X11R6
> dir my startx complained about a missing xterm.
> And surely a find did not find one installed.
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> I manually had to cd into the programs/xterm dir and type make install
> (not that it _was_ already compiled).
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> Looks like a bug to me, but I could be wrong :)
I think the bug is in the lack of documentation of this change. Since
xterm is now maintained at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
the older copy in the Xorg tree was disabled by default so that people
could more easily drop in the upstream version.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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