Questions about building 4.2.0 (imake and xmakefiles)

[Matthieu Herrb]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> james osburn wrote:
> 
>>
>> Questions about building 4.2.0
>> First of all I don't have a choice about using something other than X 
>> 4.2.0 at this time.
>>
>> 1. How does imake work or how are the xmakefiles built?
>> Are they xmakefiles built using imake?
> 
> 
> "How does imake work" is a rather vague question, of which the
> answer could fill several hours worth of typing.  Having said
> that, both XFree86 and X.Org have documentation in their top
> level directories that cover the basics of compiling and
> installing the given release.  The xc/config/cf directory
> contains the base buildsystem config files, as well as some
> more documentation.
> 
> "imake" and "xmkmf" also have manpages which you may also find
> useful.
> 
> This is general information not really specific to either X 
> implementation or particular version.

There's also a O'Reilly book on the subject.	
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imake2/index.html>
-- 
Matthieu Herrb
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