In acconfig.h, there is a template for PTYROFS, but no way to set it without manually editing the resulting config.h. The comments in configure.in related to setting PTYGOUP suggest that PTYROFS is a holdover from before that test existed. Does anyone use PTYROFS (ie, does anyone manually edit config.h to set it), or can that value be purged from the code?
Also, although it is far too early for scrutiny, in the spirit of 'release early, release often', I would like to mention http://github.com/wrp/wscreen/tree/wrp. This is an effort to modernize the build environment. So far, I've reduced the Makefile.in's from 338 and 62 lines down to 115 and 15 line Makefile.am's, and corrected several issues related to VPATH builds. (Well, I didn't correct them...they simply get fixed as a result of using automake.) There are a lot of really old system tests in configure.in that should be replaced with config.guess. This should improve system detection, since config.guess is actively maintained. Also, I'd like to put gnulib's version of getloadavg in to clean up a lot of that in the configury. As mentioned above, this branch is immature, but it appears to work on OS X and Free BSD. (I say 'appears to', since there is no test framework. That is my primary end goal.) I intend to continue to track screen.master, and hope that this doesn't become a fork. I have had to make one very minor change to build on OS X. (I posted that patch a few days ago.) Note that currently I don't install $prefix/bin/screen-$version but just $prefix/bin/screen. Installing the versioned binary is a job for the package manager, IMO. -- William Pursell
