Observations on 3.8.16

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> This is something that bugged me for a long time. If the user gets the
> source tarball, he can use :
> 
> ./configure --enable-old-style [some other options here] and the system
> will come up with the wonderfull coloured workspace buttons .

  So, must '--enable-old-style' be the first option passed to autoconf?
 
> Also, something else I wrote is the fact that you have to hunt down
> older versions of the executables (xfwm, startxfce etc.) and replace
> them with the newlly compiled one. Most of the time, they will be
> sitting on /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin

  I've been Freshening by Red Hat packages. Now, I get the source rpm and
rebuild that. I can change the configure options in the spec file.

Rich

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