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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Porting X11R4
Message-ID: <1123@redford.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 14:27:02 GMT
References: <1991May31.164737.8519@ugle.unit.no> <1221@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1991May31.164737.8519@ugle.unit.no>, jot@ifi.unit.no (Jo Torsmyr) writes:
> Does anyone know if there exists some documentation on how to port X11R4
> to other platforms? I have followed the steps in mit/config/Imake.tmpl, but
> that doesn't seem to work. The problem may seem to be that MacroIncludeFile
> is not defined when Imake.tmpl is processed, but I compile imake with a
> BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS, so I need more documentation...

There are a few documents in mit/doc/Server which are exactly what you
are looking for.  They have to be formatted with tbl and nroff using the
ms macro package.  You may event want to print all of them out to make
them reference material.
These are the files:
total 343
drwxrwxr-x  3 bill     engin         512 Oct  4  1990 ./
drwxrwxr-x 19 bill     engin         512 Mar 29 15:04 ../
-r--r--r--  1 bill     engin         399 Dec 20  1989 Makefile
-r--r--r--  1 bill     engin      178464 Dec 21  1989 ddx.tbl.ms
-r--r--r--  1 bill     engin       41298 Feb 26  1988 gdz.tbl.ms
-r--r--r--  1 bill     engin       39755 Dec 21  1989 r4.tbl.ms
-r--r--r--  1 bill     engin       76716 Dec  4  1989 strat.ms
drwxrwxr-x  2 bill     engin         512 Oct  4  1990 xinput/

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