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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Trouble making individual clients in the mit tree
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.104231.437@cns.umist.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Aug 90 10:42:31 GMT
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In article <1990Aug12.212742.26994@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott) writes:
|> When I go to work on just one of the clients in the X11 mit tree,
|> typing make in the client's directory produces the error
|> 
|>     make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `../.././X11/Xlib.h'
|> 
|> An xmkmf command usually makes the makefile usable from that directory.
|> Is this behavior intentional?  Could it be changed so that the makefile
|> didn't have to be reconstructed to make from the client directory?
|> 
|> 
|> --
|> This is news.  This is your       |    Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
|> brain on news.  Any questions?    |    (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)

Go into the $(TOP) directory first and say "make includes" this creates
a directory $(TOP)/X11 with links to all the appropriate X and intrinsic
directories, together with subdirectories for several toolkits.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST