xft xemacs & x resources

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an chéad lá de mí Márta, scríobh giacomo boffi: 

 > some questions, related by my desire of using the latest beta and the
 > xft branch as coexisting alternatives
 > 
 > 0. is it possible to specify to configure the name of the executable
 >    to be installed?

I’m not sure of this--I get 

configure.ac:1052: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

with autoconf 2.59 .  With the old configure file, no, you couldn’t
configure the name of the executable to be installed--in this case, that
shouldn’t really be an issue. An install of the latest trunk will overwrite
xemacs, but only with a symbolic link to xemacs-21.5-b19; xemacs-21.5-b18,
the XFT build, should still be there. 

 > 1. is it possible to somehow differentiate the resources used by
 >    xemacs and the resources used by the xft branch?

Index: x-init.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/x-init.el,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -u -r1.13 x-init.el
--- x-init.el2002/06/20 21:18:051.13
+++ x-init.el2005/03/01 11:41:36
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 ;; If you want to change this variable, this is the place you must do it.
 ;; Do not set it to a string containing periods.  X doesn't like that.
-;(setq x-emacs-application-class "Emacs")
+(setq x-emacs-application-class "XFTEmacs")
 
 (defgroup x nil
   "The X Window system."

recompile, and then run xemacs-21.5-b18 -name XFTXEmacs. All the XFT branch
resources will have to start with XFTXEmacs instead of XEmacs.

 > 2. so far, so good: 21.5b19 installs the core lisp into its own
 >    hierarchy, and the xft branch installs its core lisp under a
 >    different (b18) tree
 > 
 >    when xft will receive the status of b19, is there the potential for
 >    a conflict?

XFT probably won’t ever receive the status of b19, if I understand it
correctly; by the time it’s merged into the trunk, we’ll have another beta
version.

That said, yes, there’s a distinct possibility for conflict there. 

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