Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:02:37 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>             ;; XXX This was disabled unless `window-system', but that
>             ;; leads to buggy behaviour when a tty frame is opened
>             ;; later.  Setting the keyboard coding system has no adverse
>             ;; effect on X, so let's do it anyway. -- Lorentey
> 
> There's one adverse effect: it loads encoded-kb.
> We could either preload encoded-kb, or make a change to
> do this the first time a tty is opened.
> 
> I prefer the latter since most sessions don't use a tty.

On second thought, I also prefer the latter, if someone figures out a
clean way of doing that (I think keyboard input for each tty can in
principle have a different default encoding: e.g., one tty is local,
while the other is remote, and each one belongs to a different
locale).