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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Unix & X-Windows on 386SX
Message-ID: <2437@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 04:03:29 GMT
References: <1990Nov23.182943.21094@cs.dal.ca> <2389@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Nov27.172500.11891@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Nov27.172500.11891@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin Le) writes:

|     xmkmf is just a simple shell script that calls imake with the
|     correct flags.  I've seen people used alias (in csh) and shell
|     functions (in sh/ksh) in place of xmkmf.

  You're right in absolute terms, but the flags have to point to a
directory which holds the local config files... like saying that all you
need for stio is an include statement.

  After a good bit of hacking I have one which mostly works, in that it
produces a Makefile which can be edited to work correctly.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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