On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> Is it possible to build X11 in pieces? I read that
>
> "X11 has its own Imake based build system and you
> can't
> build X11 in separate pieces such as build tools,
> server & libraries and applications. Instead after a
> configuration change use �make World� and rebuild the
> whole 160+MB source tree"
>
> Is it true? If I learn "Imake", Is it possible to
> recurse the main Makefile and Imake files in sub
> directories to find the modules and dependencies?

some of the directories depend on other parts of the tree - not on
their immediate descendents.  For example, the programs depend on
libraries.  I seem to recall that the order of libraries is not
simple (long ago found that extensions are built in a particular
order which is not really related to the directory hierarchy).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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