kterm compile question.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Christensen <marc@example.com> writes:

    Marc> Hi everyone.  I was trying to compile kterm the other day
    Marc> and got an error:

Haven't done this is a while, guess I should....

    Marc> For some reason, xmkmf creates a Makefile that defines and
    Marc> sets XKB on command lines for gcc.  Is there something wrong
    Marc> with the configuration of my machine so that it thinks it
    Marc> can support XKB and it really can't?

No, XKB is standard in XFree86 for many moons.

    Marc> The other thing is, what is XKB and why is it used?  If I
    Marc> remove the definition of XKB in the Makefile it compiles
    Marc> fine and seems to be very usable.  Is not having XKB going
    Marc> to cause me greif?

XKB is a standard protocol for configuring the console keyboard
driver.  It makes configuration a lot more standard, but unfortunately
the config files don't seem to be documented anywhere.  They're pretty
self-explanatory, see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb (IIRC).  There is also
documentation in the X11 sources, but IIRC that only treats the
internal protocol and API, and doesn't describe the configuration file
system used by XFree86.

I don't know why kterm wants to use it.


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