building XFree86 from cvs

[Nicholas Wourms]

--- Guy Harrison <swamp-dog@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:13:50 -0500, "Michael Harnois"
> <mharnois@cpinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> >Oooh. This is stranger than I thought. Some of those programs do
> get built
> >correctly, despite the log messages. For instance in config/util,
> makestrs,
> >revpath, and rman build ... but lndir doesn't.
> 
> Probably because "gcc -o foo" yields foo.exe automatically but
> unfortunately dependencies and so forth won't know that. Your
> average
> "configure & make" app can sometimes get away with it - only to
> fail on
> the install & uninstall (good indication of this problem existing
> is
> make invokes the linker even though the last make succeeded). Sadly
> this
> is my first forray into the world of Imake so take my advice for
> this
> particular problem with a strong pinch of salt.

You'd think TOG would get a clue and switch to the autotools...

Cheers,
Nicholas

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