On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:21:33 -0600 "Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey David, > > > After noticing that my Gentoo and debian packages of ctwm do not > > have support for m4, rplay, or gnu regex, I decided to hack the > > Gentoo ebuild and package. > > That's a little odd; especially on the m4 side. In looking around, it > seems like the Gentoo ebuilds and Debian packages both should do m4 > just fine, and the Debian builds look like they have rplay and > GNU_REGEX set as well. > > > > I defined the stuff in Imakefile.local but after compiling and > > typeing ctwm -info I still see only I18n support. > > I'd suspect you're probably running the wrong ctwm in that case, or > you missed re-running imake after the changes. With the defines set > in the Imakefile.local, it shouldn't even be possible for the compile > to succeed without linking in the extra bits. I'm including a dump of my build so you may verify the results I got. I am bz2'ing it. Please note that the only editing done was a regex-sub: ^ + to eliminate the leading whitespace that screen/nano includes when making a copy. I'm doing the same with the hacked ebuild. (I know, you dislike binary files, but it's going to be 100K message otherwise). > > Now, that all said, if you're hacking on the ebuild (or on the Debian > side package), I'd definitely encourage you to try pulling it up to > being based on the snapshot announced a couple days ago. A lot has > changed relative to 3.8.2; e.g., the GNU_REGEX stuff (which has never > really had anything to do with GNU anyway) is no longer even optional. > And it would get 'em in shape to easily transition to the final 4.0.0 > release when it's made (hopefully soon). Will do. > The gentoo build is even > advertising itself for a new maintainer, too... ;) I'd really love to contribute, but I've[1] already[2] over[3] extended myself. I have a attenuation for the small projects and they always are looking for help. I feel cursed by Tantalus, being constantly wanting to give but unable to do so (though I do submit bug reports). Thanks, David 1. http://lists.tldp.org/go.to?list=discuss&cmd=showmsg&msgnum=12906 (my message) 2. https://github.com/uzbl/uzbl/issues/212 (user = ballsystemlord) 3. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554458 (user = deference)
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