Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Hello,
The makefiles in trunk disable building of gpm on Sparc. Could you
please explain the reason? Is it just an unneeded package there or fails
to build?
Also, this leads to conditional exclusion of the --with-gpm switch on
Sparc. This complication is in fact not needed: just never pass this
switch. Ncurses will find gpm and use it (via dlopen) if it is installed.
Alright. Then let's remove the switch.
The reason for removing --with-gpm (and also gpm entirely) from the
sparc build is that the machine I'm testing on has no mouse, video or
keyboard ports. The sparc CD is in many ways a prototype. I wanted to
keep it small and be able to test out everything on it, so I removed
anything I can't currently test. If/when we get more people using the
sparc CD and asking for more support (and more testers!) I'll drop more
of the packages back in.
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JH
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