Howard Chu wrote, quoting me: [This originated on the autoconf@xxxxxxx mailing list] >> Would there be any advantage to you, if I were to add a user >> customisation hook into the distributed msys.bat, so you wouldn't >> need to hack your own customisations in, any time you upgrade? >> (Say, have it call msysite.bat, if it exists in the msys startup >> directory, just before invoking either rxvt.exe or sh.exe)? > > That would make sense. I've often wondered if there already was such > a hook that I just hadn't seen. There isn't, at present, AFAIK. Does seem like a good idea though. Of course, a more appropriate forum for continuing this discussion would be the mingw-msys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. > The other tweak that always goes in here is to change the default > rxvt colors, even though the comments say not to edit them there. > (sigh..) The rxvt colours are always going to be a subjective choice, which will vary from one user to the next. The current defaults were set according to Earnie Boyd's preference, and clearly will not suit everyone. The advice to not change them is more related to the potential for clobbering the customisation during an upgrade, rather than to any disasterous side effect which might ensue. Of course, a user customisation hook, calling a user supplied script, would also side step this issue. BTW, the MSYS rxvt has some I/O issues, which in some cases can actually break a package build. For example, `groff' cannot be successfully built by a make process invoked from MSYS rxvt -- the build locks up part way through -- yet it completes OOTB with MSYS sh.exe started with rxvt disabled. Since I am a groff developer, in addition to being a MinGW project administrator, I have long ago discarded the MSYS rxvt, in favour of the native Windows console invocation of MSYS -- the problem has been identified as an rxvt flaw, but extensive efforts to find a solution have so far been fruitless. :-( Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
