FW: [Bug 12] gpm-1.19.3

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello!

> > There is two real questions I have here.  One:  Is the change from OPEN_MAX
> > to FOPEN_MAX in special.c a "good thing?"
>
> I don't know, I'll let the new maintainer reply about this :)
> Obviously, you need to preserve compatibility with previous libc version, so
> this must be considered as well.

FOPEN_MAX is not used anymore in version
1.19.4.  OPEN_MAX from <linux/limits.h> is used.

> > Two: Should we try and come up with a change to the configure script so that
> > it detects if TeTex is installed and if it's not then will just skip
> > installing the info files (with a warning preferably)
>
> I don't think so. Since the published tarball already includes
> compiled docs, you don't need to recompile them. There is a bug in the
> doc/Makefile that prevents stuff from being recompiled. I fixed it in
> later packages of mine (that have a similar structure) but this
> happened after I gave over with gpm, so I never backported the
> fix. It's trivial, though, and I'm sure Nico, the new maintainer, will
> find it readily.

not to say I didn't recognize the bug until today :)


> >> sed s/OPEN_MAX/FOPEN_MAX/ special.c > special.c~ &&
> >> mv special.c~ special.c &&
>
> why not
>         perl -p -i -e s/OPEN_MAX/FOPEN_MAX/ special.c
> ?

vi.

Nico