Re: PTYROFS/wscreen

Steve Kemp <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:13:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <20081231101308.GA25587__49951.4328934767$1238089157$gmane$org@steve.org.uk>
On Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 06:20:40 +0000, William Pursell wrote:

> Also, although it is far too early for scrutiny, in the
> spirit of 'release early, release often', I would like to
> mention http://github.com/wrp/wscreen/tree/wrp.

> This is an effort to modernize the build environment.

  Great!

> So far, I've reduced the Makefile.in's from 338 and 62 lines
> down to 115 and 15 line Makefile.am's, and corrected
> several issues related to VPATH builds.  (Well, I didn't
> correct them...they simply get fixed as a result of
> using automake.)  

> As mentioned above, this branch is immature, but
> it appears to work on OS X and Free BSD.

  Compiled just fine for me on Debian etch, lenny, and sid.
 x86 + amd64.

> Note that currently I don't install $prefix/bin/screen-$version
> but just $prefix/bin/screen.  Installing the versioned binary
> is a job for the package manager, IMO.

  Agreed.

Steve
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