Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the >> > debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and >> > I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work >> > when I'm in a terminal. >> >> The simplest way is to use the configure script which is part of the >> sources (see the INSTALL file for a summary of options). >> >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation >> There's an faq at >> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html >> ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ >>
> thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for > xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files > named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the > whole of xfree86 in order to make a debian package; and following the > instructions from the debian reference manual, namely: Not exactly (I don't make any of those packages, but frequently compile xterm on systems where they're installed). Looking at the stuff I've installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need to be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. > sooo... should I now just make, make install a custom xterm -- or is > there in fact a way to make a .deb of xterm without building the whole > xfree86 suite? It depends on whether you want to learn how to make packages (or just get xterm built). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
