karl@mote.umb.EDU ("Karl Berry.") (09/02/89)
The ximake distributed with R3 looks inside the X source tree for the template files, and also the imake binary. This seems wrong to me, since those files are machine-specific. The lndir script solves the imake binary problem, since the binaries would reside in different directories on different machines. But the macros files are still shared, so it is not sufficient. Furthermore, it seems like overkill to use 2.3MB for links just so that one small binary will end up in the right place. Would not a better solution be to install the template files and the imake binary in /usr/{lib,bin}/X11, which are already machine-specific directories, and change ximake appropriately? karl@umb.edu
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (09/05/89)
Would not a better solution be to install the template files and the imake binary in /usr/{lib,bin}/X11, which are already machine-specific directories, and change ximake appropriately? Yup. This was actually one of the first things done for (what will become) R4.