[gpm]Re: new release: gpm-1.19.5

[Alessandro Rubini]

> Once again there is a new release of GPM!

It has a few bugs added. Some may be older (like 1.19.4 that I didn' look at).

* After running ./configure in the "make" it re-runs autoconf and configure.
	autoconf may be not installed in the user's computer. 

* Tries to link gpm with libgpm. That's not needed. The resulting binary
	looks linked to lgpm (this means that if you have no libgpm in
	your library path the newly compiled daemon won't run

* Tries to make t-mouse.el in src/ , but it's in contrib/emacs
	(not that it's not a contrib source, it's a core gpm feature

* The various "ex_tex" etc stuff is bugged, comparison always fails
	(no $$ in Makefile)

* Liblow.c defines non-static vcname and consolename. It pollutes application
	name space. Same for check_devfs and set_devfs, should be static into
	liblow.c

* src/Makefile: LSRC should list the lib sources, new stuff is added to
	LOBJ instead (no bug, just unclean)

* liblow.c::Gpm_Open: the comment asks what's isdigit() needed: it's in
	the next line, where you set conn->vc=atoi() . 

* mouse_test.c has the buggy check_devfs: opened fd is not closed, not opened
	is closed.

* This in gpm.c:
		   chmod(GPM_NODE_CTL,0700);
	allows only root to connect to the server

* The new headers don't protect against double-inclusion

* defines.h replicates a lot of stuff from gpm.h

* ChangeLog doesn't use the right format. It should list what has been
	changed in each file (otherwise people can't look for a specific
	file that they are interested in)

>    o new daemon name

Sorry?  Didn't find it.

/alessandro "finding bugs is easier than maintaining a program"