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From: ellis@unix.SRI.COM (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Installation woes
Message-ID: <30501@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 11 May 89 05:17:48 GMT
Reply-To: ellis@unix.sri.com (Michael Ellis)
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Organization: SRI, Menlo Park, CA.
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    X installation instructions leave a great deal to be desired. 

    A month ago back when we were running Sys4-3.2, I gave up trying
    to install X11R3 on my Sun4. It was far easier just moving up
    4.0.3 than the wasted week I spent trying to determine how to
    tell "make World" that it should not look for alloca in all the
    wrong places. With 4.0, X installation is a breeze. (Thanks
    to the multitude of helpful folks who offered suggestions:
    The best advice is to upgrade SunOS))

    Now that I have the core X running (and it works fine), just how
    do I install non-core X, that vast mass of software in contrib that
    "make World" refuses to touch? None of the megabytes of README's 
    or installation documents or release notes offer the slightest hint. 
    Individually cd-ing to each subdirectory of config and hacking up
    every Makefile in sight by hand surely isn't right, but that's all
    that  I can think of. The only clue I can find is the partially 
    commented line in the top level Imakefile:

	IRS_CONTRIB = /* $(AWMDIR) $(TWMDIR) */

    However, I don't just want awm and twm. I want *everything*.

-michael