Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: file name lengths for contributed software Message-ID: <8808191440.AA24517@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 88 14:40:44 GMT References: <8808191315.AA05177@teak.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 15 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