Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

> Since the last patch I pushed XBoard is now completely XPM free: I
> replaced the 7 remaining XPM icons that were used in the engine window by
> the Xaw version by bitmaps (which I defined internally in xenginoutput.c).

Great, I created a branch removexpm [1] which gets rid of all xpm calls.
Let me know if this would work and I'll push it to master

Tim: I also removed zic2xpm from git, which I guess is not that usefull
anymore anyway?

> There still are 6 XPM files in the pixmaps directory, howeever. These are
> not used for building the XBoard binary, but they are desktop icons to be
> associated with various mime types. I don't think that can be said to make
> XBoard dependent on libXpm. In any case, the icons could be converted to
> another format, like PNG, and moved to another folder. This would require
> changes in the Makefile.

Probably should convert them to png. I don't have time for that right
now though, but I'll look into it at one point.

> Currently these icon files are installed in
> $(datadir)/games/xboard/pixmaps/textures. This does not make much sense,
> as they are not textures, and since the switch to Cairo neither the Xaw
> nor the GTK version can use pixmaps for textures. In fact it does not make
> much sense they are installed at all; XBoard does not need them for
> running. They are only used at install time, in the xdg commands to
> associate them with the mime types, and in that case it is the version
> from the source tree that is used, not the copies in pixmaps/textures. The
> latter are sort of 'write once, read never' copies.

We still need to package them though, so that they are in the tar-ball
and can get installed into the right place at one point.

Arun

[1] https://github.com/arunpersaud/xboard/tree/removexpm
    or
    http://git.nubati.net/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/xboard.git/