yesterday i got vte working somewhat on OS X. this involved some unix magic, with moving where some file descriptors were closed. it seems that in one place, the app will hang in close(2), while in the other, it doesn't. a look at lsof indicates that the fd gets closed, but the app just sits there. the strange thing is that it works fine with zvt (they both share the pty-helper code). i don't know what's up with this.
anyway today i cvs up'd and now it doesn't work again (although different errors). after struggling with gdb(1) for a bit, i ended up using this tactic:
kill (getppid (), 11);
and moving it around the code to see how far it's getting. sadly, this worked quite well and pointed me at the problem: AC_CHECK_FUNCS(foo) defines HAVE_FOO, while AC_CHECK_FUNC(foo) and AC_CHECK_LIB(foo, foo) do not. i am sure phil would have something clever to say about it if he wasn't so sick.
went to elements with nat at the pheonix landing. i didn't really get into it - not sure why. then we went to charlies and it went something like this:
me: i'm feeling a little sick.
nat: i'm dehydrated, i think i'm just going to get a water.
me: i was just going to get a water.
nat: ...
me: maybe we should go home and not waste anyone's time
so in general a fun time was had by all.