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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