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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Alternative installation directories for X11R4
Message-ID: <3977@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 22:37:28 GMT
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From article <16001@lanl.gov>, by gam@lanl.gov (Gim Mark):
| I've come across another problem, which arises when you're
| developing X applications and you've installed the X distribution
| in a non-standard place.
| 
| Many of the include files in the MIT distribution themselves 
| contain directives of the form
| 
| #include <X11/Xlib.h>
| 
| That is, these directives require that the X11 headers be under
| certain system-defined directories.  If you install the release say
| in /usr/tmp, cpp will fail on these directives when you try to compile
| your own X application.
| 
| The only solution I've come up with is to alter the directives to the
| form
| 
| #include "Xlib.h"

Wouldn't it work to put

INCLUDES = -I/tmp/cpp/whatever

in your Imakefile?  There are all sorts of include directory-setting
symbols in the configuration files, but INCLUDES is the one intended
for you to be able to use yourself.

--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu