Subject: Re: xterm is compiled without --enable-256-color; why?
To: Leonard Schmidt <lems@gmx.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/24/2005 07:53:00
> Thank you for your reply, Hubert. I especially mean x11/xterm since that
> is what I use, but I mentioned xterm from the xbase sets because I was
> curious if it was compiled with 256 colours or not.
>
> Well, a patch for pkgsrc would look like this:
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /pub/NetBSD-CVS/pkgsrc/x11/xterm/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.17
> diff -u -r1.17 Makefile
> --- Makefile	16 Feb 2005 22:13:47 -0000	1.17
> +++ Makefile	24 Mar 2005 10:59:31 -0000
> @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
>  USE_X11=	yes
>  WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PKGNAME_NOREV}
>
> +CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-256-color

This should probably be optional until we can test it is good.

This is covered at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html .

But more interesting is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=130664

As for me, I think it is fine to be default; I don't think any hardware I
use would have problems.

Gentoo also enables it by default. See
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11-terms/xterm/xterm-200.ebuild?view=markup
(The above also lists other options enabled.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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