Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!bin From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: R5 Wish List (Imake to the bitbucket) Message-ID: <2767@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 17 Jul 90 21:00:59 GMT References: Sender: bin@primate.wisc.edu Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu Lines: 21 From article , by montnaro@milkweed.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro): > > How about getting rid of Imake and using GNU make instead for R5? I've never > gotten Imake to work properly, and always wind up translating Imakefiles > into GNUmakefiles. Ahh .... no. Please don't. Imake is wonderful. It would, though, be nice if there were more documentation about how to overcome some of the more common errors likely to crop up during the configuration process (e.g., your Makefile gets hosed). Or more comments in the configuration files. Sometimes they're mighty cryptic. Or is it just me? I really like imake a lot, but found I have to invest quite a bit of time trying to understand it before I was able to take it and use it for my own projects. Is this unusual? Paul DuBois Internet: dubois@primate.wisc.edu UUCP: rhesus!dubois CompuServe: >INTERNET:dubois@primate.wisc.edu FAX: 608/263-4031