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From: brsmith@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: An open Imake philosophy question
Message-ID: <14548@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 01:04:17 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Here's the deal: I have all the X sources in one partition, mountable
by all of the servers on our network.  When I have to install X on a
machine, I can just mount it and (due to the extreme cleverness of Imake)
type "make World".

After the install, though, using Imake to compile contrib software is
messy.  The standard Imake.tmpl references the source directory often.
The only fix I've been able to come up with is this; put a copy of the
imake src and includes somewhere else (/usr/lib/X11, in my case), and 
bang away at Imake.tmpl so that it uses the installed libraries and
include files.

Shouldn't there be an agreed-upon subset of Imake.tmpl that would allow
software installations without the sources around?

Brian
brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu