building XFree86 from cvs

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Aug 20 08:07:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:

> If that is the case then the Imakefile for xterm needs to be fixed because
> some non-Cygwin programmer that has an empty ProgramTargetName macro
> accidentally wrapped each target name in PROGRAMS with ProgramTargetName.
> On their non-Cygwin platform this makes no difference, but on Cygwin this
> makes a huge difference because our ProgramTargetName appends .exe to the
> target name.  Thus, someone simply needs to remove the ProgramTargetName
> wrappings from xterm's Imakefile and submit that as a patch.

Ok. I just checked some Imakefiles. You're right.

bye
	ago
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