Re: [PDCurses] Need with Autotools compilation on X11

2016-01-11 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:27 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:15 AM, William McBrine wrote: >> ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu > > This works. https://travis-ci.org/techtonik/PDCurses/builds/101480507 But it is still unclear why autotools don't autode

Re: [PDCurses] Need with Autotools compilation on X11

2016-01-11 Thread William McBrine
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:17 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > But it is still unclear why autotools don't autodetect these. Well, it goes through the MH_CHECK_X_LIB function in alocal.m4, which defines the search path like so: mh_lib_dirs="$x_libraries `echo "$ac_x_includes $ac_x_header_dirs" | s

Re: [PDCurses] Update to Win32a posted: trying to "re-unify" PDCurses

2016-01-11 Thread Bill Gray
Hi Anatoly, I've been sidetracked by several other projects. I really should do this, though... it would be relatively easy to put the Win32a changes in to the new hosting at this point, and I should do it before there's much divergence between what I've got and what is on github. (A qu

Re: [PDCurses] Update to Win32a posted: trying to "re-unify" PDCurses

2016-01-11 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hi Bill, Do you use version control? If so, then you can convert your changes into series of patches and go through the changes one by one. Once you get familiar with Git, you can maintain you own branch of patched and rebase it periodically to make you changes on top. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:

Re: [PDCurses] Need with Autotools compilation on X11

2016-01-11 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:11 PM, William McBrine wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:17 AM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: > >> But it is still unclear why autotools don't autodetect these. > > Well, it goes through the MH_CHECK_X_LIB function in alocal.m4, which > defines the search path like so: >

Re: [PDCurses] Update to Win32a posted: trying to "re-unify" PDCurses

2016-01-11 Thread Bill Gray
Hi Anatoly, I expect I'll be doing things exactly that way (submitting patches). Actually, it'll be a mix of patches to existing code, some of them quite large, plus the entire Win32a folder as "new code". I'm not at all familiar with Git. (I'm self-employed and haven't had to "work we

Re: [PDCurses] Need with Autotools compilation on X11

2016-01-11 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Mark Hessling wrote: > That would be me. Remember at the time I did the X11 port autotools were > quite primitive. Maybe it is time to replace a lot of the custom autotools > stuff with more standard procedures. Cheers Mark Maybe it could be just updated to lat