On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Ross Boylan wrote:

> I'm interested in building xterm for debugging on a system that
> already has a full install of XFree 4.2.1 (Debian GNU/Linux).  I
> realize most of you are probably thinking about newer versions of
> XFree, but I'm hoping someone might have some useful advice on this
> list.
>
> Any tips about how to do a partial, debugging build?  Or about xterm?
> I notice the comments saying the code is a mess; I'm really just

yes, they're an amusing relic of the X consortium.

> interested in identifying the font it thinks its using and the font
> lookup and rendering system that it relies on--core, xft1, or xft2.
> (xterm gets me a font that is very s p a c e d o u t, while xterm -fn
> fixed works fine.  I've been unable to duplicate the font I get with
> xterm alone using any specific -fn or -fa argument).

        sh ./configure --enable-trace
        make

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