Re: minor ./configure patch

[Micah Cowan]

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Andy Harrison wrote:
> After finding myself struggling to alter the MAXWIN value (without
> hard-coding it into any header files) and having it successfully
> change when I compiled screen, I made a small modification to the
> configure script to make it a little friendlier.  This allows you to
> specify --with-maxwin=50 or whatever number you like.
> 
> I also attached a modified the rpm spec file which I grabbed from:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jnweiger/openSUSE_10.2/src/screen-4.0.3-164.1.src.rpm

Hi Andy,

You should never directly modify "configure" scripts--they are generated
files. Instead, you should modify the configure.in (in this case) or
configure.ac, from which the configure script is generated.

I'm thinking that this sort of thing would go better on the screen
development list, but I can't tell whether screen is being actively
maintained: the most recent changes in CVS appear to be 16 months old,
and I haven't seen any official responses to patch submissions.

I don't think the GNU developers can do anything much with a spec file;
I'd submit your changes to the SuSE and Red Hat developers.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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