Re: New XEmacsen at long last (was Re: Who broke the (athena) scrollbar thumb?)
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
sb> SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> This was broken in the last round of patches I integrated.
sb> Oops, not quite. I ran configure with X11 not in my $PATH and xmkmf
sb> failed to get run and my X11 libraries are poison unless NARROWPROTO
sb> and X_LOCALE get defined.
sb> Um, why shouldn't configure scream bloody murder if it is configuring
sb> for X11, and fails to find xmkmf? It's certainly preferable to
sb> indefinite churning and spitting out an unusable binary.
On many X11 systems, there is no vendor-suppplied xmkmf. I remember
on AIX xmkmf was only provided in source form, in the `examples'
directory.
In my opinion, XFree86 is differently broken in REQUIRING the user to
LIE about his software by defining _BSD_SOURCE, for example.
Let's face it, X11 is broken. Let us count the ways...
Martin