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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R5 Wish List (Imake to the bitbucket)
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Date: 18 Jul 90 08:22:52 GMT
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In article <MONTNARO.90Jul17154903@milkweed.crd.ge.com>,
montnaro@milkweed.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
|> 
|> 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.
|> 
|> --
|> Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)

If you have never got Imake to work that is your problem, because I
would expect that almost everyone else has. Imake is indespensible for
handling different compilers and operating systems - we usually get out
X source after it has been on a Sun system in the next building, and
about all you can do with the Makefiles from there is "make Makefiles".
The difference between their gcc orientated makefiles and our Apollo cc
ones is considerable. I hope nobody takes this suggestion seriously.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST