Re: Re:Jim Breen's patched kterm

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com> writes:

    Dennis>   My question is, I guess, how on earth did Jim Breen ever
    Dennis> get this to compile if it's such a mess?  And is it worth

Very carefully....

On another machine....  He didn't necessarily do it on Linux, even
though the #ifdef's are there to allegedly support Linux.  I've
noticed in a lot of cases the -DLinux and -DPOSIX_source should *not*
be defined together, because there are varying ideas of what "POSIX"
means, or something like that.  And in the case of Linux, like most
free software, POSIX compliance is a sometime, gradually improving
thing.  The more recent kernels have better compliance.  If you
upgrade your kernel and libraries (assuming you have a relatively old
set), this might fix it.  Or Jim Breen may be compiling on an older
Linux system, in which case it'll work when he gets around to it.

    Dennis> my while fixing these problems one by one?  Does anyone
    Dennis> else out there think they need/want this?  Want to help?

Well, Jim Breen would want to know.  As for help ... this one's not
for me :-(  I have enough trouble with JISX-0201, let alone -0208 and
I don't think I ever use -0212.  Right now I'm trying to get a clean
integration of TeX with Ghostscript, still.

Steve

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