On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
This thread is about color. My Link MC3+ doesn’t even *have* color, but it will do bold, underline, and blink. Why should Autoconf care what my terminal can do? The operating system has a database mapping what my terminal can do to a common API. Let the library handle it.
I should point out that the "operating system" does not necessarily have what you describe.
Autoconf and Automake support many environments, including some which lack a terminal database.
Indeed, Autoconf and Automake may be configuring/building software which adds support for a terminal database.
This does not mean that it can't be supported on systems which do have terminal information, but it makes the task somewhat more challenging.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
