Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!CS.ROCHESTER.EDU!becker From: becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: file name lengths for contributed software Message-ID: <8808191315.AA05177@teak.cs.rochester.edu> Date: 19 Aug 88 13:15:35 GMT Article-I.D.: teak.8808191315.AA05177 References: <8808190103.AA20688@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 If possible, please provide Imakefiles. I don't like to use Imakefiles. We like to RCS all src we install. Furthermore, after the installation all the *.[coh], etc files get removed. (There are good reasons for this (besides disk space), but this isn't the space to articulate them in). So, I don't have a fully populated X11 src tree sitting around. Thus, Imakefiles are difficult to use when building just one piece of X11 s/w. I understand the usefulness of the Imakefile system at build time. It works great at allowing me to tailor the build for my specific site. However, when I build code after the initial X11 installation, I want to link against the installed library's and include the installed header files. I don't want to go looking in $(TOP)/.... for these. How can we meet these two needs together? Tim Becker. becker@cs.rochester.edu