by -~=Darek M=~ » Fri, 05 May 2000 04:00:00
Why the use of Imake files instead of the traditional make files
with the ./configure | make | make install commands?
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by David . » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00
> Hi, I am going crazy trying to find xmkmf. Maybe I am looking in
> the wrong places. Tried a web search, linuxberg, tucows,
> google.com. None of them gave me a link to download it. I just
> want to install xpmlib and xfree86.
> Why the use of Imake files instead of the traditional make files
> with the ./configure | make | make install commands?
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rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
Or to see if it is installed and where it is try:
whereis xmkmf
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by Duan » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00
Imake is the "traditional" way of of compiling X programs. I was usingQuote:> Hi, I am going crazy trying to find xmkmf. Maybe I am looking in
> the wrong places. Tried a web search, linuxberg, tucows,
> google.com. None of them gave me a link to download it. I just
> want to install xpmlib and xfree86.
> Why the use of Imake files instead of the traditional make files
> with the ./configure | make | make install commands?
Configure contains the info about every variation on every platform that
it can be compiled on in the ./configure file itself. It the file does
not contain the info for your platform, then you may be SOL. Admittedly,
it is well supported and seems to handle the vast majority of cases very
well.
Imake keeps the platform dependent information on the platform, so that
theoretically any new platform could compile any program that had
properly configured Imakefiles. This also allows easy platform dependent
customization if, for example, you wanted nonstandard locations for
binaries, docs, etc.
Unfortunately, many vendors shipped their computers with broken Imake
implementations, leading to widespread dissatisfaction with it. Hence
its eventual replacement with ./configure.
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by David . » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00
> > Hi, I am going crazy trying to find xmkmf. Maybe I am looking in
> > the wrong places. Tried a web search, linuxberg, tucows,
> > google.com. None of them gave me a link to download it. I just
> > want to install xpmlib and xfree86.
> > Why the use of Imake files instead of the traditional make files
> > with the ./configure | make | make install commands?
> > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
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> Check to see if it is installed and by which package.
> rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
> Or to see if it is installed and where it is try:
> whereis xmkmf
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1. OW3.1 xmkmf is ok - Re: Solaris 2.1 OW3.x xmkmf -- WRONG!
|I just did a few xmkmf's using Solaris 2.1 and the OW that
|comes with it (I think it's 3.0.1 or 3.1 -- don't remember).
|The resulting Makefiles generate stuff that would work fine
|on SunOS 4.1.x, but often fail on Solaris 2.1. It looks like
|the Imake templates were not changed since the 4.1.x version
|of OW...
|Anybody have OW imake templates that setup correct Makefiles
|when used with xmkmf on Solaris 2.1?
Hmm, strange, I used xmkmf a dozen times now and it allways produced correct
output. It is true that there was a very small bug in the OW 3.0 (Solaris 1.X)
sun.cf in openwin/lib/config, but this can be corrected by the patch at the
end of this posting (this works really nice for me, but your mileage may vary).
Cheers,
Frank
--- Patch for $OPENWINHOME/lib/config/sun.cf ---
*** sun.cf.org Wed Sep 18 10:26:19 1991
--- sun.cf Thu Oct 29 21:48:54 1992
***************
*** 5,14 ****
* full build (make World) at the top of the sources....
*/
#define SunOSPlatform YES /* set to NO if not running SunOS */
! #define OSName SunOS 4.0.3
#define OSMajorVersion 4
! #define OSMinorVersion 0
! #define HasSaberC YES /* for machines that have it */
#define HasNdbm YES
#define XsunServer Xsun
--- 5,14 ----
* full build (make World) at the top of the sources....
*/
#define SunOSPlatform YES /* set to NO if not running SunOS */
! #define OSName SunOS 4.1.3
#define OSMajorVersion 4
! #define OSMinorVersion 1
! /* #define HasSaberC YES /* for machines that have it */
#define HasNdbm YES
#define XsunServer Xsun
***************
*** 77,79 ****
--- 77,89 ----
#if OSMajorVersion >= 4 && OSMinorVersion >= 0
#define SetTtyGroup YES
#endif
+
+ /* special defines to make things easier - fkk */
+ #ifdef IncRoot
+ #undef IncRoot
+ #endif
+ #define IncRoot $(DESTDIR)$(OPENWINHOME)/include
+ #ifdef ExtraLibraries
+ #undef ExtraLibraries
+ #endif
+ #define ExtraLibraries -L$(OPENWINHOME)/lib
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