brsmith@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Brian R. Smith) (07/20/89)
Here's the deal: I have all the X sources in one partition, mountable by all of the servers on our network. When I have to install X on a machine, I can just mount it and (due to the extreme cleverness of Imake) type "make World". After the install, though, using Imake to compile contrib software is messy. The standard Imake.tmpl references the source directory often. The only fix I've been able to come up with is this; put a copy of the imake src and includes somewhere else (/usr/lib/X11, in my case), and bang away at Imake.tmpl so that it uses the installed libraries and include files. Shouldn't there be an agreed-upon subset of Imake.tmpl that would allow software installations without the sources around? Brian brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (07/20/89)
Shouldn't there be an agreed-upon subset of Imake.tmpl that would allow software installations without the sources around? Tim Becker of Rochester posted patches to the R3 imake template to make it work outside of the source tree. It is definitely a reasonable thing to do; I had implemented essentially the same thing literally an hour before Tim's posting....