I just apt-get source xterm, which pulled in 4.2.1-15. After a look at the documents, I tried debian/rules checksource But this ran into trouble at Applying patch debian/patches/001a_damn_cpp_3.3_to_hell.diff...done. Applying patch debian/patches/001b_m68k_haslinuxinput_too.diff...dry run failed. patching file config/cf/linux.cf Hunk #1 FAILED at 157.
I subsequently tried debian/rules source.make, but it died in the same way. Since the package obviously has built, I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone give me a hint? That's the narrow question. The reason I'm doing this is that my basic xterm font is messed up (s p r e a d o u t), and I've been unable to track down why, or even to reproduce it with xterm -fn foo or xterm -fa (e.g., xterm -fn fixed works OK). I have quite a few other font problems, and I'm hoping to figure out what's going on. So I was thinking of looking at, and possibly debugging, xterm to figure out what's going on. For example, I'm not entirely sure what font management system vanilla xterm uses (X core, Xft1, Xft2). If anyone has any ideas about how I might approach the larger problem of figuring out my fonts, or the intermediate problem of just buiding xterm for debugging, I'd be very grateful for your help. I know you're busy with 4.3. My system is mostly testing, and I'm actually running 4.2.1-12.1; I got the source from unstable. Thanks. If you could cc me, I'd appreciate it, though I'll be checking the list on the web too.
