Re: FVWM: building fvwm 2.043

From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 15 Aug 1996 11:31:20 +0200

>>>>> Henry McNair writes:

  Henry> When I am building fvwm, I am asked to enter the command
  Henry> "xmkmf;;make Makefiles"
  Henry> I have access to imake, but what is xmkmf?

Usually, X11 distributions have this xmkmf which is just a shell
script. Maybe your X11 distribution is broken and doesn't have it. I
include the one from Sun Solaris 2.5 OpenWindows below and you could
just adapt it to your machine (path settings and suchlike).

hth,
kai

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#!/bin/sh
#
# generate a Makefile from an Imakefile from inside or outside the sources!
#
usage="usage:  $0 [top_of_sources_pathname [current_directory]]"
topdir=
curdir=.
case $# in 
    0) ;;
    1) topdir=$1 ;;
    2) topdir=$1  curdir=$2 ;;
    *) echo "$usage" 1>&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
case "$topdir" in
    -*) echo "$usage" 1>&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
if [ -f Makefile ]; then 
    echo mv Makefile Makefile.bak
    mv Makefile Makefile.bak
fi
if   [ -n "$topdir" ]; then
	args="-I$topdir/config -DTOPDIR=$topdir -DCURDIR=$curdir"
elif [ -n "$OPENWINHOME" ]; then
	args=" "-I$OPENWINHOME/lib/config
else
	args=" "-I/usr/lib/X11/config
fi
echo imake $args
imake $args
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Received on Thu Aug 15 1996 - 04:40:33 BST