Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Mario Klebsch wrote: > > They are not - within the imake build system. Outside it, there are two > issues > > a) accommodating mis-installed or obsolete imake config files > > b) setting different compile-time options. > >> included with X11) knows everything about the local X11 installation, >> where configure has to guess and far too often guesses wrong. I really >> do see no benefit in not using the imake system and I must admit that I >> do not understand why configure does not use an Imakefile to find out >> all the details needed to compile X11 programs on a given platform. > > I do that with xterm (but see (a) above). > >> I hope X11 will keep the imake system. However if these efforts do get >> configure to reliably detect the X11 specific settings, I would be >> happy if this stuff is included in X11, so this pain finally get to an >> end. > > It'll take these people a long time to make it work properly other than > for the trivial case of different Linux configurations, e.g., where the > difficult autoconf checks are glossed over by hardcoding things.
I believe that we have it working in all gcc based build environments that it can. wt -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
