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From: mao@blia.BLI.COM (Mike Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Imake for Installed Libs/Includes
Message-ID: <6232@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 89 20:00:22 GMT
References: <8901171751.AA04277@teak.cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: mao@blia.UUCP (Mike Olson)
Organization: Britton Lee
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regarding the problem

        #ifdef CompileWithInstalled
         # this should work but does not because INCDIR is /usr/include/X11
         #      INCLUDES = -I$(INCDIR)
               INCLUDES = -I/usr/include
        #else CompileWithInstalled
               INCLUDES = -I$(TOP)
        #endif CompileWitInstalled

reported by tim becker, where INCDIR doesn't work because clients insist
on including <X11/*.h>, i solved the problem by using

	INCLUDES = -I$(INCDIR) -I$(INCDIR)/..

this is suboptimal, but works.

i found the same problem with R3 -- almost no program (except the ones
developed locally) uses the installed versions of the libraries or header
files.  rather than waste space, i did the equivalent of a "make install"
by hand, slinking everything from the install directories to the source tree.

that said, i think that MIT has done a first-rate job of release engineering
this time around.  i remember the hair-pulling it took to get R1 and R2
installed.  now, if the full distribution were less than eighty megabytes
of source code...

					mike olson
					britton lee, inc.
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