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From: rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: can't make libXt.a
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Date: 5 Jan 90 18:55:07 GMT
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Thanks.  Your explanation and fix is more reasonable than the stupid
one from Greg Earle.  What I am trying now in site.def is

#if HasGcc
#define DependCmd $(DEPENDSRC)/makedepend -I/tuna_e/gnu/lib/gcc-include
#endif

The reason I am so hard on Greg Earle is because (now watch my lips):

	Software vendors should not assume that non-standard (e.g.,
	public domain) software is installed in any "standard" place.

Likewise, they should not require add-on software to be installed in a
particular place.  X11r4 suffers from this; for example this comment
at the top of site.def

   We strongly recommend that you don't change the installation directories
   and just use symbolic links if you want things to be installed on a
   different partition.  For example,

       # cd directory_containing_X_distribution
       # make World
       # mkdir /otherdisk/X
       # foreach i (bin lib include)
       >     mkdir /otherdisk/X/$i
       >     ln -s /otherdisk/X/$i /usr/$i/X11
       > end
       # make install

should not be there.  Not everyone wants to or even has the ability to
make symbolic links into /usr.  (For example, they may be nfs mounting
X from somewhere on their diskless workstation and the sysadmin for
their fileserver won't make the symbolic links for them.)  The X
distribution should (but doesn't) work without these symbolic links.
(In case you're wondering why just run something like "find
x11r4_src_dir/mit \( -name Imakefile -o -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h'\)
-a grep /usr {} \; -a -print".)