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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Imake for Installed Libs/Includes
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Date: 17 Jan 89 18:31:04 GMT
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> Lots of sites (besides mine) don't want to continually build every X
> application that comes along from inside the X11 distributed src tree.
> It could even be argued that from a s/w engineering point of view that
> this is a *bad thing*.

There is no reason why people have to drop sources into their master tree.
Anybody who does so is making more work for him- or herself.  


>                          However, I'd like a few changes from the X 
> workers at MIT to get it to work well.

I'm in the middle of finishing up the restructuring of the imake config files
that was begun in R3.  It will be functionally similar to what you've done.
I'm trying to reorganize things so that the X-specific stuff is more 
clearly identifiable.

							Jim

p.s. If you want a name for the directory containing the X11 includes, use
INCROOT (that's what R4 will use).