On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:35:17PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 
> I think it'll probably live in a separate chapter when it gets there
> since it's developed outside of Xorg. Maybe X libraries.
> 
 Ah, the "outside Xorg" perhaps explains why it didn't show up when
I was first building 7.1, although I can remember seeing it
mentioned in the release notes.

> >  Perhaps I should also add that xkeyboard-config depends on
> > intltool.
> 
> Actually, it depends on XML-Parser. Intltool works like autoconf where
> it only ever needs to be run to generate the in tree scripts. However,
> the scripts use the XML-Parser perl module. But, point taken.
> 
 I defer to your expertise - I can't work out WTF is going on in the
xkeyboard-config-0.9/configure script around line 2297, but I saw it
was looking for intltool, and complaining if the version was < 0.30.

 But then, at line 2351 it says to use the tools built in to the
package, not the one that are installed.

  I'm almost pissed-off enough to go back to xkbdata, but that would
miss the fixes for mac (ppc) laptops [ not that blfs cares about
non-x86 any more ] and the fix for Russian ъЪ (from memory, only one
of those appeared in xkbdata in the phonetic variant, although
arguably it wasn't a problem).  So, I'll just have to say "oh well,
I might not understand it, but at least it doesn't use perl to sort
out the configure [ c.f. e.g. openssh ]." ;-)

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