Re: twm and xfree 4.1.0
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:10:01PM +0200, Fabian Sturm wrote:
> Now i got the big tar ball xfree86_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz (51MB)
>
> But i dont know how to unpack it and start the build of the
> xfree packages. If i do a dpkg-source -x xfree86_4.1.0-0pre1v3.dsc
> i get a directory xfree86-4.1.0 which contains the directories
> debian and upstream...
> But i cant run dpk-buildpackage on this.
Works for me.
> But i could find out why twm has no menu.
> If i install the binary package i only have the file
> /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc-menu
>
> under linux i have:
>
> menudefs.hook system.twmrc system.twmrc-menu system.twmrc.twm-old
>
> I think these files get generated by the update-menus program.
Yes.
> Which gets called from twm.postinst.
> If i execute update-menus it crashes with
>
> krypton:/etc/menu-methods# update-menus
> Update-menus[241]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm recieved signal 13.
> Is this sigpipe?
It´s a long-outstanding bug. Someone really needs to take a closer look
at update-menu.
Marcus
>
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