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From: jjo@calmasd.GE.COM (Jay Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Multiple targets with one source
Message-ID: <2496@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 19:28:09 EST
Article-I.D.: calmasd.2496
Posted: Mon Oct 26 19:28:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 22:02:05 EST
Reply-To: jjo@calmasd.UUCP (Jay Olson)
Organization: GE Calma, San Diego
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We have an environment which I am sure is becoming quite common these
days: a network with a variety of Suns, Vaxen and other assorted machines,
many of which run NFS and can see filesystems on other machines in the
network. Right now, the X11 source is NFS mounted so that both the Suns
and the Vaxen can access it.

However, it is somewhat inconvenient to actually build and install X for
both types of machines using the same source. If I have built one particular
version (say the Sun), and wish to make a small change to the other (say
the Vax), I have to make clean, possibly fiddle with some files, remake the
makefiles, remake the dependencies, and completely remake X. Needless to
say, this is quite time-consuming.

Has anybody else faced a similar situation? Can anybody suggest a viable
alternative? Is it possible to change some of the Imake rules so that the
resulting makefiles put the objects in different places?

Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated.

				Jay Olson
				a consultant working at
				GE Calma
				San Diego, CA
				jjo@calmasd.GE.COM
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