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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: file name lengths for contributed software
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Date: 19 Aug 88 14:40:44 GMT
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The problem is that Makefiles are not portable and are horrendous to maintain.
But, there is nothing at all wrong with providing sample Makefiles along with
the Imakefiles.  In general, most people will only generate Makefiles once,
and imake frees you from having to edit them to cope with the details of your
system.

It seems to me that wanting to build against the installed header and libraries
rather than the ones in the build tree is a separate issue from whether or not
people provide Imakefiles.  If anything though, I would think that Imakefiles
would be helpful to you since you could tailor the Imake.tmpl and Imake.rules
files in ./util/imake.includes/ to do what you want and then regenerate the
Makefiles....

Jim