That makes sense. Where do I find the urxvt source archive? I've been poking around and don't see where to find the sources for any Cygwin packages (other than Cygwin itself).
Thanks, Raul > Raul Acevedo wrote: >> Supposedly urxvt 7.x supports tabs via a Perl module by running it as: >> >> # urxvt -pe tabbed >> >> Supposedly this has been possible since urxvt 7.3 (see >> http://linux.die.net/man/7/urxvt). Why does this not work under Cygwin? > > Because urxvt is configured with: > > --disable-perl \ > > and perl is required for tabbed stuff to work. The reason cygwin's urxvt > is compiled that way is to vaoid the 10MB dependency on perl just to > install urxvt, for a feature most people will not use. > > You can easily download the source archive, remove the offending > configure option above from the handy .cygport script, and rebuild it... > > $ cygport rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-6.cygport all > > > -- > Chuck > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
