On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:13:51PM -0500, Scott Klement wrote:
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>
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got a few other things I'd like to fix in the configuration stuff,
> > > since there's a lot of steps you have to take manually on FreeBSD systems
> > > right now (you have to patch xt5250, replace XTerm, install termcap
> > > entry, etc) Should I try to avoid calling anything from the shell in
> > > configure.in?
> >
> > Nah... The only advice I've really ever heard is that you should try to do
> > things based on whether or not certain features are present as opposed to
> > what kind of system it is. For example, a Windows version might use
> > WSAAsyncSelect() instead of select(); if we support this, we should use
> > WSAAsyncSelect() based on whether the function was found, not whether the
> > host type is Windows.
> >
> > Of course, this is not always possible, but I've found it's made things much
> > more portable and I've been pleasantly surprised when a package just happens
> > to work on a new system ;-)
>
> Well, what I'm trying to do is install the things in the "freebsd"
> directory when running on a FreeBSD system. And install the things in
> the "linux" directory when running on a Linux system.
>
> I guess the real reason I'm grouping it by "Linux" and "FreeBSD" is
> because that's what the directories are called. :)
It was originally just for the terminal types, which are pretty OS-depedent.
>
> Here are the issues I'm trying to solve:
>
> 1) The "dialog" command that comes with FreeBSD does not support
> the --backtitle argument. So, for xt5250 to bring up a
> prompt with dialog, this has to be omitted. I could probably
> create a test in configure.in that would check to see if
> --backtitle is supported... (or maybe backtitle isn't
> important and we should omit it entirely?!)
It's not necessary, but it's a nice touch.
>
> 2) Different keyboard maps should be installed in FreeBSD than
> in Linux. Right now, it always installs the Linux one, and
> you have to manually install the FreeBSD one if you want it.
> I don't know how to distill this down to a "feature".
True, this one probably should be keyed on the system type.
>
> 3) a different XTerm file is needed under FreeBSD. The strings
> containing the tilde "~" character don't seem to work with
> FreeBSD's termcap library. I have no idea how I'd check
> that in configure.
The first question is whether there is a different thing we can put in the
XTerm file that will work on both platforms. If not, then that should
probably be keyed on the X windows version or the xterm version, whichever
is the deciding factor.
>
> So what I was thinking that I should do is move XTerm to the linux
> directory, and put my FreeBSD version in the freebsd directory.
> Have autoconf change the SUBDIRS in Makefile.in so that it only
> built the linux directory for Linux systems, and the freebsd
> directory on FreeBSD systems.
>
> And do a "--backtitle" feature check in configure.in so that xt5250.in
> uses backtitle only when available.
This should actually be done from the script which calls dialog (xt5250). You
know, like:
if dialog --help |grep -q backtitle ; then bt_arg="--backtitle $title" ; fi
...
dialog $bt_arg ...
For reference, both dialog -h and dialog --help return text containing the
word 'backtitle' on RH7.1.
>
> Or is there a better way?
>
I hope this is useful...
-Jay
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