gwollman@jhunix (Garrett A Wollman) (02/02/90)
(I lost the references because RN died on followup... ah well...) Henry was saying something about how he needs tools to reliably build on a wide variety of machines, in response to Peter's comment about Imake. Imake is a tool which was developed (I believe) by MIT to make machine-independent source releases. I have never compiled the Imake program myself, but as far as I have seen, it does provide a very good capability to separate the machine-dependent definitions of a Makefile from the actual dependencies. I believe it's distributed under the same deal as the Athena software. -GAWollman
news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News) (02/02/90)
In article <4100@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> gwollman@jhunix (Garrett A Wollman) writes: }(I lost the references because RN died on followup... ah well...) Something about that article ... anyway }In article <5695@videovax.tv.tek.com> Bart Massey writes: }}The X11 people have a configuration system based on a makefile generator }}called 'imake', which is distributed with the X11R4 stuff. This system is }}already fairly general and *very* portable, and does most of what most }}people seem to want for configuring C News. I wonder if it wouldn't be }}worthwhile for Henry and Geoff to use 'imake' as well? } }Henry was saying something about how he needs tools to reliably build on a }wide variety of machines, in response to Peter's comment about Imake. I want to publicly support Messrs Spencer and Collyer in their decision _not_ to use Imake. We (U of Rochester Computing Center Unix systems support group) install all non-licensed software into a separate directory tree. All the software written at MIT using Imake has been significantly more difficult for us to "retarget". I appreciate your effort in writing software for the most-common-denominator. -- Scott Leadley - leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (02/03/90)
From article <5024@ur-cc.UUCP>, by news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News): > I want to publicly support Messrs Spencer and Collyer in their decision > _not_ to use Imake. We (U of Rochester Computing Center Unix systems support > group) install all non-licensed software into a separate directory tree. All > the software written at MIT using Imake has been significantly more difficult > for us to "retarget". I appreciate your effort in writing software for the > most-common-denominator. Is this experience with the X11R3 or X11R4 imake? Some work has gone into the latter to address the concern you raise above, I think. Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu