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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Naive "imake" questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.213313.17582@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Aug16.160342.11490@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 21:33:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.160342.11490@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
- >OK, lots of X programs come with Imakefiles and need imake to generate
- >a customized Makefile for the local machine.
- >
- >Firing up imake as distributed in X386 for 386BSD, it complains about
- >not being about to find "Imake.tmpl". I found that setting the env
- >var IMAKEINCLUDE to "-I/usr/lib/X11/config" would get it to create
- >makefiles OK, but not with quite the correct information to build
- >the target, like library paths are wrong.
- >
- >Is there another place this is supposed to point to, to get to the right
- >stuff? If not, is there a copy or link that needs to be done? Otherwise,
- >what is the accepted way to set this up?
-
- The imake program uses a relative path (relative to TOP) to get
- locations of everything. The Makefile resulting from the imake is supposed
- to know this for the invocation of imake for subsequent make files under
- the creation heirarchy.
-
- There is a shell script called "xmkmf" (X make make file) available
- (hit archie if it isn't in your X distribution). Basically, it uses the
- path-to-top specification option to imake.
-
- To use it, you can do one of two things: Edit 'xmkmf' so that
- it knows where TOP is (this is the directory which contains the 'config'
- directory which contains imake), and use the following command from within
- a directory containing an Imakefile you wish to become a makefile:
-
- xmkmf
-
- -OR- you can specify that top level directory as a parameter. For instance,
- if your top level X heirarchy directory was "/X11R5/new/dist" and your
- config directory was therefore "/X11R5/new/dist/config", the following
- command would work with an uneditied xmkmf in the Imakefile directory:
-
- xmkmf /X11R5/new/dist/config
-
- If you use the second method, you should probably be aware that it seems
- to hate relative paths: if you relocate your build directory relative to
- the TOP directory, you will need to remake xmkmf. If you use an absolute
- path, as long as TOP doesn't move, you can move around the actual build
- directory for what you are building, without adverse effect. For instance,
- I usually build new X apps in my home directory and test them out before
- relocating them into my X heirarchy and building them there.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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