>>>>> "JL" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes_at_inria.fr> writes:
JL> I agree completely with Anthony. One more point in favor of
JL> autoconf. Since you write the skeleton of the Makefile(s), it
JL> is by design human readable. This means that, unlike
JL> imake-generated Makefiles, you can hack them if something goes
JL> wrong.
JL> Concerning setting up correctly imake, it can be very
JL> difficult to do on some proprietary systems and versions of
JL> X11. It is better to fix fvwm once than to tell a bunch of
JL> people to fix their setup.
The thing to do is leave the system config files in place, make a copy
of the config directory into someplace you can edit, then also copy
xmkmf (it's just a script, at least under OpenWindows) so that it uses
the new config files by default. Then make sure your xmkmf is earlier
in your path.
But you are definitely right that imake config files, and the
generated Makefiles are not humanly readable. :-) Hacking those
config files is a major pain.
-Barry
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