moraes@CSRI.TORONTO.EDU (Mark Moraes) (01/14/89)
I'll second Casey's suggestion that all contrib software should have Imakefiles - Imakefiles make it possible to compile an application and install it without having to fix Makefiles all over the place. And the Imakefile is so much smaller than the corresponding Makefile. Otherwise the program insists on going into /util/x11/somewhere...
guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) (01/18/89)
Hmm, I would agree that Imakefiles are better than Makefiles, but when I last picked up a client from the net with an Imakefile, the Imakefile seemed to insist that the client source directory be a subdirectory of the X source tree. I can't write that tree (it is maintained by our support group, which saves me work, but they are slow in installnig new goodies from the net). Is there an easy way to change this? --Guido