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From: becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: file name lengths for contributed software
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Date: 19 Aug 88 13:15:35 GMT
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   	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