xterm is not installed in cvs

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Jul 11 13:29:47 PDT 2005


Thomas Zander wrote:
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> I was kind of surprised that after a make World into a clean /usr/X11R6 
> dir my startx complained about a missing xterm.
> And surely a find did not find one installed.
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> I manually had to cd into the programs/xterm dir and type make install 
> (not that it _was_ already compiled).
> 
> Looks like a bug to me, but I could be wrong :)

I think the bug is in the lack of documentation of this change.   Since
xterm is now maintained at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
the older copy in the Xorg tree was disabled by default so that people
could more easily drop in the upstream version.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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