I wrote: (I think some clarification is needed) > 2) Make NCurses aware of GPM, but not the other way round (this is what the > LiveCD does). This means compiling unpatched gpm, and then ncurses.
not unpatched, but with exactly the same patches as in the BLFS book. > 3) Do nothing. In UTF-8 environments, GPM is next to useless and thus should > not be installed at all. It became useless in LFS SVN, because the utf8_input kernel patch is dropped (because upstream doesn't like it). If we put this patch back, the GPM problem will go away (but someone will start counting patches again). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
