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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with X11 (tree) in non-standard location
Message-ID: <1289@attc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 00:59:01 GMT
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.com (better ...sunpeaks!auto-trol!marbru) ()
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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I am still having problems with the non-standard X11 installation.
I need to have my X11 directory tree completely separate from anything else.
Using a shared resource (a server), I can't use the common approach of
creating links in /usr/local.

Building X11 withe DESTDIR=mypath was easy and worked as expected.
The problem is making anything that DEPENDS on MIT X11 (such as Wcl, Dirt...)
using that non-standard X11 location.

I did the obvious thing (and I got advice to do that). Modified my site.def
to include definitions for my non-standard directories, such as BinDir,
UsrLibDir, IncRoot, ManDirectoryRoot etc. using the following approach:

#ifndef BinDir
#define BinDir  $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin/X11
#endif

But I was still running into probles with make Makefiles target insisting on
looking up Imake templates in standard -I/usr/local/lib/X11/config. I found
that the whole problem is due to template definition:
   DESTDIR = DestDir

However, putting macro DestDir=... on make command line was not enough, as
the imake for subdirectories does not propagate it down. I ended up modifying
the Imake.tmpl as follows:

649c649,650
<         IMAKE_CMD = $(IMAKE) -DUseInstalled -I$(IRULESRC) $(IMAKE_DEFINES)
---
>         IMAKE_CMD = $(IMAKE) -DUseInstalled -DDestDir=$(DESTDIR) \
>                         -I$(IRULESRC) $(IMAKE_DEFINES)

This finally did the job of making makefiles in subdirectories. However,
beeing a really novice Imake user, I hope there is a cleaner solution to
my problem (one that does not require Imake.tmpl changes).

Any help ?

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Martin Brunecky                           {...}sunpeaks!auto-trol!marbru
(303) 252-2499                        (sometimes also:  marbru@auto-trol.COM )
Auto-trol Technology Corp. 12500 North Washington St., Denver, CO 80241-2404