kbd-1.14.1

[Greg Schafer]

Hi List,

I install this package but don't really use it. There appears to be a bunch
of Makefile problems with this release:

  1. man pages for the optional progs are installed no matter what

  2. data files (consolefonts etc) are installed into /usr/share instead of
     /usr/share/kbd

  3. locale file are not installed (nls is disabled by default)

  4. getkeycodes, setkeycodes and resizecons are not installed

  5. loadkeys is installed into /usr/bin instead of /bin

Here are the fixes I'll use:

  1. sed -i.bak 's/ifdef OPTIONAL_PROGS/ifeq ($(OPTIONAL_PROGS),yes)/' man/Makefile.in

  2. sed -i.bak 's,@datadir@,&/kbd,' {src,data}/Makefile.in

     NOTE: using --datadir=/usr/share/kbd (or --datarootdir) is NOT correct
     because it adversely affects locale files location. See next item.

  3. ./configure --enable-nls

  4. make KEYCODES_PROGS=yes RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes
     make KEYCODES_PROGS=yes RESIZECONS_PROGS=yes DESTDIR=$PM_DEST install

  5. Actually, I won't bother fixing this. AFAICS, console/keyboard init
     scripts tend to be called way late in the boot process, ie: long after
     /usr is mounted. So what's the point of having it on / ? Please correct
     me if I'm missing something.

After browsing the upstream git repo, it appears at least some of the above
items have been fixed.

Regards
Greg