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From: diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 Makefiles
Message-ID: <9740004@hpfclp.HP.COM>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 18:01:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 18:01:56 1987
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> The makefiles for X11 fail to use complete path names for many Unix
> programs.  For example, in the *.macros files in  util/imake.includes,
> are the definitions of AS, CC, LD, LINT, and MAKE.  These should be
> complete pathnames, as:
> 
>              AS = /bin/as
>              CC = /bin/cc
>              LD = /bin/ld
>            LINT = /usr/bin/lint
>            MAKE = /bin/make

I don't think so.  Better control of your path while compiling (maybe including
a path in the makefiles themselves) would be a much better way to handle this.
You are assuming that every UNIX implementation puts every command in the
same spot.  That is a no-no.  It would be much better to restrict your path
to not include the modified versions of programs you don't want used, then it
would to hard code paths of everything into makefiles.


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