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From: paulsh@denali.wv.tek.COM (Paul Shearer)
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Subject: Re: How to use Imake -- answer, not question
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Date: 13 Dec 90 18:56:53 GMT
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> In article <11@ftms.UUCP> writes:
> |> I am searching for documentation explaining how the imake program works.
> |> I have the imake man page, but it doesn't explain the syntax of the
> |> Imakefile file.
> 
> Imake is actually deceptively easy to use.  Unfortunately, there is no
> good documentation for it AT ALL (as you noticed) and it looks
> confusing enough to throw off most people.  The sheer scale of the X11
> distribution doesn't help any, either.  Here's how it works.

This is not quite true.
There is a very good document "An Imake tutorial" found in

contrib/doc/imake/*

There may be an updated version on expo.

The author is:

moraes@csri.toronto.edu



Paul Shearer
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