Re: [RP] xterm/x-terminal-emulator/whatever dependency

[shawn]

>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:19:21 +0100
>
>Hi there!
>
>Yesterday on IRC I asked if the dependency on xterm or any other x
>terminal emulator could be removed. The current situation (as of today
>:) is that ratpoison cannot be easily built without an xterm. This is
>especially painful when I want to create the Debian package. To solve
>the problem RealFast, I added a xterm | x-terminal-emulator to
>ratpoison's build-dependency (in debian/control). However, I don't
>think this is nice, as RP can be built without it.
>
>So, my proposal is the following: hack configure.in, and change it, so
>--with-xterm will default to xterm, can be overridden from the
>commandline (no change till this), but it must not fail, when it does
>not found it. It should not look for the specified xterm at all! If
>the user doesn't have any xterm-like program, he'll configure RP
>accordingly, most users will be happy with the default :)
>
>Anyway, if configure won't fail when there is no xterm/whatever, I
>could remove the build-dependency on xterm | x-terminal-emulator, and
>change Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator to a Recommends: only.
>
>What do you think ?

ratpoison doesn't NEED a term to run. I changed configure.in to only
warn if it can't find the specified or default x term.