Missing X support in dosemu 1.2.2-3build1 dapper multiverse

[Hans-Hermann Redenius]

Starting xdosemu first shows the "boot" screen in the Terminal.
Then it ends with:
ERROR: X support not compiled in

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Confirmed on dapper x86.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

`dosemu` crashes too, and using the --with-x flag during build doesn't help.

[Klaus Reimer (kay)]

Bug can be solved in that way:

Edit the file default-configure in the root directory of the dosemu source. Search for this block:

    x)
      if [ "$2" = "off" ]; then STRING="$STRING --without-x"; fi
      ;;

and replace it with the following:

    x)
      if [ "$2" = "on" ]; then STRING="$STRING --with-x"; fi
      ;;

Then rebuild the package and X support is working fine. I think this change is needed because the default setting of dosemu has changed. Maybe older versions had "--with-x" as default so in the configure-default file this feature could be disabled. But now --without-x is default and therefor the entry in configure-default is not working any more.

Maybe this is an upstream bug and not Ubuntu specific. Haven't checked.

[Bart Martens (bartm)]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370021