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From: mrp@UCS.Adelaide.EDU.AU (Mark Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Bug with imake (I think)
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Date: 31 Jul 90 07:17:17 GMT
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In my continuous quest to make X happily live in /usr/local/... (and
to install the various fixes) I have run into what looks like a bug.

In mit/clients/xdm/Imakefile there is a section of "code"

/**/#
/**/# Special definitions for compiling default resources; these parameters
/**/# should be set in util/imake.includes/site.def or the appropriate .macros
/**/# file in that directory.  The lack of initial spaces is to prevent imake
/**/# from accidently turning the lines into rules by putting a leading tab.
/**/#
/**/# Do NOT change these lines!
/**/#
DEF_SERVER = $(BINDIR)/X
DEF_USER_PATH = DefaultUserPath         /* no leading spaces or imake will */
DEF_SYSTEM_PATH = DefaultSystemPath     /* indent as rule */
BOURNE_SHELL = DefaultSystemShell
CPP_PROGRAM = CppCmd

When you try adding #define's to site.def to set these values, such as

#ifndef DEF_USER_PATH
#define DEF_USER_PATH ":/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin"
#endif
#ifndef DEF_SYSTEM_PATH
#define DEF_SYSTEM_PATH
"/etc:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin"
#endif

The resulting Makefile (after make World) gives

#
# Special definitions for compiling default resources; these parameters
# should be set in util/imake.includes/site.def or the appropriate .macros
# file in that directory.  The lack of initial spaces is to prevent imake
# from accidently turning the lines into rules by putting a leading tab.
#
# Do NOT change these lines!
#
DEF_SERVER = $(BINDIR)/X
":/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin" =
:/bin:/usr/bin:$(BINDIR):/usr/ucb
"/etc:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin" =
/etc:/bin:/usr/bin:$(BINDIR):/usr/ucb
BOURNE_SHELL = /bin/sh
CPP_PROGRAM = /lib/cpp

Which doesn't work (strangely enough). Since DEF_*_PATH are only used in
resource.c (in that directory) I removed the definitions from site.def,
but it means that I can't modify the default paths this way which is a pain.

Any suggestions?

Also if anyone has a list of places I should have modified to make X work
in another tree could you let me know (the sym links work but it's ugly).

Thanks,
Mark.
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