building XFree86 from cvs

[Guy Harrison]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:14:56 -0700 (PDT), Nicholas Wourms
<nwourms@yahoo.com> wrote:

>--- 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...

All that's required is for me to become 100% proficient in Imake. It
would guarantee it! :-)


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