[bug-gv] gv-3.7.1 problems + patch

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi,

first please consider the attached patch required for a correct VPATH build.

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In addition there are still serious problems with updating the resources in
~/.gv via gv-update-userconfig.

When there is no such file ~/.gv, I obtain the message:

> One of the files
>     /usr/local/X11R6/share/gv/gv_system.ad
>     /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/GV
> belongs to an older version of gv and cannot be used.
> Please remove or update the outdated file.
> Quite probably your /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/GV is too old.
> Running gv-update-userconfig /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/GV should 
> help
> by removing all incompatible resources.

This is misleading (a non-root user can certainly not update files under
/usr/local). Moreover "gv-update-userconfig" fails with
> Cannot open $HOME/.gv for reading.

Thus the user has to "touch ~/.gv; gv-update-userconfig", but this is by no
means obvious.

Please fix gv such that the program correctly diagnoses that ~/.gv is
missing (and creates such a file). In addition gv-update-userconfig should
also create this file when missing.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

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