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From: becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Stupid Imake question
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Date: 2 Mar 89 13:57:46 GMT
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   The Right Way to do this is to use Larry Wall's configure program, so
   you never have to edit a makefile or anything else.

Have you ever had a problem with the configure program -- where you
wanted to do something that wasn't built into the configure script?
I've have to do it with rn and another package so far.  LW's configure
program doesn't *solve all ills* either.

   Sounds like a cigarette ad. In reality, the emperor has no clothes and
   Imake is quite a hassle.

I finally bothered to write an ximake shell script that would turn an
Imakefile into a Makefile without needing to keep the src tree around.
I told it where to find the installed includes/libs.  It's working
great so far, no hassle.  Really!

Tim Becker.
becker@cs.rochester.edu