Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!atmos.washington.edu!harry From: harry@atmos.washington.edu (Harry Edmon) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: WARNING ON BUILDING XVIEW 2.0 - MAY DELETE IMPORTANT FILES Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 17:52:29 GMT Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington Lines: 48 Using "make World" from the XView 2.0 sources can cause you delete files from directories ABOVE where you have the sources. Here is a copy of the output I got out of "make World" on XView: Building Release 2.0 of the XView Toolkit If you get message, 'Can't find include file XView.tmpl', set the environment variable IMAKEINCLUDE to '-I/tmp_mnt/disk0/test/xview/fcs/config'. Tue Aug 14 10:38:35 PDT 1990 make 'SUBDIRS=config util lib images misc ' Makefiles making Makefiles in ./config... rm -f config/Makefile.bak mv config/Makefile config/Makefile.bak cd config; imake -DUseInstalled -I./usr_latest/usr/lib/xview/config -DTOPDIR=../. -DCURDIR=./config; \ make Makefiles making Makefiles in ./util... rm -f util/Makefile.bak mv util/Makefile util/Makefile.bak cd util; imake -DUseInstalled -I./usr_latest/usr/lib/xview/config -DTOPDIR=../. -DCURDIR=./util; \ make Makefiles making Makefiles in ./util/scripts... rm -f scripts/Makefile.bak mv scripts/Makefile scripts/Makefile.bak cd scripts; imake -DUseInstalled -I.././usr_latest/usr/lib/xview/config -DTOPDIR=../../. -DCURDIR=./util/scripts; \ (etc - lines left out to reduce size of posting make Makefiles making Makefiles in ./misc/support... rm -f support/Makefile.bak mv support/Makefile support/Makefile.bak cd support; imake -DUseInstalled -I.././usr_latest/usr/lib/xview/config -DTOPDIR=../../. -DCURDIR=./misc/support; \ make Makefiles make 'CLEAN_SUBDIRS=config util lib images misc ' clean rm -f -r ../../../.. NOTICE THE LAST LINE. THIS IS NASTY. I have reported this to xviewbugs@sun.com, but I thought I ought to post this to save other from what happened to me. -- Harry Edmon INTERNET: harry@atmos.washington.edu (206) 543-0547 UUCP: uw-beaver!atmos.washington.edu!harry Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, AK-40 University of Washington