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I had the most unpleasant conversation with an acquaintance the other day. He is a conservative person with thoughts that Gay Marriage is unnatural and probably a sin. I don't know why he felt it is necessary to share that with me, but I was dumb-founded by his arguments. I didn't really have the heart (or courage) to tell him that I'd probably vote yes to legalize gay marriage.

But later when I pondered about the subject of sexual choices, I realized I had no clue about them whatsoever. Of course, I have no problems with people being gay and two man or woman wanting to marry. I definitely don't think it is a sin, but what is the reason for a person's choice to be gay. Is it is a life-style choice? or Is it a genetic construct?

I've never had a friend or a family member who is openly gay, so I don't know their thought process. So I can't really agree to people's arguments that it is just a thought it can be overcome by prayer and discipline. What if it is more than that, what if it is not in the control of the person to choose his/her sexuality?

But this also begs the question, why are a lot of people averse to gays? Lets forget the religious people and consider the non-religious ones. Why are they so afraid of accepting the concept of homosexuality? Once again, could it be genetic construct that makes them unable to accept this concept? Are they afraid that a wide-spread acceptance of homosexuality might hinder the process of procreation thus resulting in the extinction of human race? Is there an evolutionary reasoning behind the hostility towards gays?

I did feel a bit shameful that I didn't speak up to voice my opinions that day.

I wrote a charming little utility for linux called getkey, that captures the keystrokes and displays them on the screen using OSD. Its called gekey and t has a couple of .c files and a hand crafted Makefile to go along with it.

But I wanted to use the auto-tools (autoconf and automake) to create a configure script and a Makefile so that my utility could by installed like any other GNU tool using the famous:

./configure && make && make install

AC_INIT([FULL-PACKAGE-NAME], [VERSION], [BUG-REPORT-ADDRESS])

AC_INIT([getkey], [0.1], [email-address])

# FIXME: Replace `main' with a function in `-lX11':
AC_CHECK_LIB([X11], [main])
# FIXME: Replace `main' with a function in `-lXtst':
AC_CHECK_LIB([Xtst], [main])
# FIXME: Replace `main' with a function in `-lxosd':
AC_CHECK_LIB([xosd], [main])

AC_CHECK_LIB([X11], [XOpenDisplay], [],[
         echo "X11 library is required for this program"
         exit -1])
AC_CHECK_LIB([Xtst], [XRecordCreateContext], [],[
         echo "Xtst devel library is missing. Xtst is required for this program"
         exit -1])
AC_CHECK_LIB([xosd], [xosd_create], [],[
         echo "xosd devel library is missing. xosd is required for this program"
         exit -1])

 AC_CHECK_LIB([libname],[func-name],[action-if-found],[action-if-not-found])

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([getkey], [0.1])

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign

CFLAGS=-Wall -I/usr/local/include -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" -DPROG="\"$(PACKAGE)\""
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -lXtst -lxosd

bin_PROGRAMS = getkey
getkey_SOURCES = getkey.c circ_list.c

bin_PROGRAMS = prog1 prog2 prog3
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -lXtst -lxosd

bin_PROGRAMS = getkey
getkey_SOURCES = getkey.c circ_list.c