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Raul Acevedo wrote:
> This is sounding a bit complicated for me right now, though I do
> appreciate the responses.  For now I built mrxvt and it works beautifully.
>  It would be nice if it were possible to build urxvt with perl support in
> an easy manner that doesn't require patches, especially of cygport itself.
>  Please announce if that is resolved so that in the future I can try
> urxvt.

Yeah, urxvt is rather a beast, actually. The upstream guys actually 
recommend that distributions ship two *different* versions of their 
product: a minimal version and an all-singing-all-dancing version. I 
didn't do that; instead I shipped a middle-of-the-road version. It seems 
to do the trick for most users, but...

--
Chuck



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