Am 16.05.2008 um 22:46 schrieb Martin Costabel:

> Martin Costabel wrote:
> []
>> Anyway, the new Fink xmkmf package hides itself in /sw/lib/xmkmf,  
>> so that in order to use it, a Fink package needs to set some  
>> environment variables in its CompileScript. Some packages need
>>  export PATH=%p/lib/xmkmf/bin:$PATH
>>  export IMAKEINCLUDE=-I%p/lib/X11/config
>> but this has to be checked with every package, especially with the  
>> kde packages which use their own version of autotools and make.
>
> I tried this with kdebase3-unified, and it works. As an alternative,  
> one would have to go through (literally!) 27,000 lines of code in  
> configure that contain the weird garbage meant to find pieces of X11  
> when xmkmf is absent. No wonder people are hating autotools ;-)

Wow, thanks again, all is up and running now.

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