[PATCH app-bitmap] config: remove unused XBITMAPS package check

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Sun Aug 8 06:54:35 PDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 00:36 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Not true:
> BitEdit.c:  #include <X11/bitmaps/xlogo16>
> 
> xbm bitmaps & xpm pixmaps are C header files in disguise (and
> unfortunately without file suffixes to make them easy to spot) -
> this is occasionally useful for building X apps, even though its a
> horrible encoding format for images in general (while most image
> formats try to compress image data, xbm & xpm actually embiggen it).
> 
> There's also a runtime dependency on a number of the bitmaps from
> xbitmaps in the app-defaults file for the bitmap program.
> 

I had noticed those but not where they were included. I ran bitmap and
noticed
the X logo but it did not occur to me that's where it was coming from.
Sorry for the false alarm.
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