xterm is not installed in cvs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:29:47PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >I manually had to cd into the programs/xterm dir and type make install 
> >(not that it _was_ already compiled).
> >
> >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.

Actually that was not given as the reason during this long thread discussing
it:

	http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-January/005835.html

(the change should have been better-documented, anyway)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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