From: k DOT healy AT student DOT ucc DOT ie
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: rxvt-unicode-X: package updates to allow building with its embedded perl interpreter enabled
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:38:15 +0100
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To allow incremental search of the scrollback buffer with
rxvt-unicode, I recently rebuilt the package with the
--enable-perl option, to include the embedded perl
interpreter required for this feature.

A few changes to the build script and Makefiles were
necessary, because the perl-specific sections had not been
tweaked to be compatible with the sandbox-type package build
process used (.build/.inst/.sinst subdirs).

If anyone would like to see these changes or use this
updated package, the source package can be downloaded as
http://rennes.ucc.ie/~kenh/rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-5-src.tar.bz2

Note that this package will not build with the current
perl-5.8.7-5 (see
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00157.html). This
will be fixed in the next package release, however a quick
fix is to edit 

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl

changing the line 
static_ext=' Win32CORE'
to
static_ext='Win32CORE'


To the rxvt-unicode-X package maintainer:
I assume you made a conscious decision not to enable the
embedded perl interpreter, due to concerns of impacted
performance and/or added dependencies, but if I'm wrong,
please feel free to incorporate these changes.

In any case, it might be worthwhile incorporating all of the
changes, bar the "--enable-perl" option to the configure
script, so that the package will build cleanly if a user
wants to rebuild with this option.


Best regards,
Ken

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