Andrew J Cosgriff said...
>
> It's a Solaris bug (it's been there at least since 2.3, which was the
> first version of Solaris I ever used), and it'll bite you on any
> program that uses imake and has subdirectories with Imakefiles
> (ie. xpm, fvwm and so on). On line 674 of
> /usr/openwin/lib/config/Project.tmpl [1], you'll see a line saying
>
> IMAKE = $(IMAKESRC)/imake
>
> - IMAKESRC is later defined as $(CONFIGSRC)/imake,
> ie. /usr/openwln/lib/config/imake, which is wrong.
>
> So the fix is to either make a symlink to imake in
> /usr/openwin/lib/config or (probably better) change the above line to
> say
>
> IMAKE = $(BINDIR)/imake
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] This may be slightly inaccurate, as I've changed jobs since I
> worked all this out, and while we have a solaris box here, it's not
> one I do any compiling on normally, so I'm just guessing from looking
> at the file. As such, make sure you backup Project.tmpl first !
it probably also doesn't help that xmkmf is looking in /usr/lib/X11/config
instead of /usr/openwin/lib/config, if i manually invoke imake and tell it
to look in the right place it seems to work just fine.
stupid solaris.
-brian
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Received on Tue Apr 15 1997 - 09:43:33 BST