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From: chudnall@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christopher D. Hudnall)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R5 wish
Keywords: r5
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Date: 31 May 91 12:20:14 GMT
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- - - - - -[Vincent Fox said]
| Couldn't the distribution be unified under one tree?  It currently
| wants to write into /usr/bin/X11, /usr/lib/X11, /usr/include/X11, etc.
| It would be easier on those of us who NFS mount things if the whole
| things was under /usr/X11. I know R4 can be modified to do this, but
| it's a real pain.
|
| A default of /usr/X11, with a single variable in the Makefile so it could
| easily be relocated to /usr/local/X11 or some such would be just peachy.
| OpenWindows (yech!) does this and it's one of the limited number of things
| I like about it.
--

Careful...remember that compilation and linking like to find things
under /usr/lib and /usr/include.  Even though /usr/X11/bin would be
okay (though that has its own problems...), changing the other two
would be problematic.

Only a really *good* version of xmkmf would make it possible for users
to work on new programs without having to make really ugly
non-portable Makefiles.

-Christopher