Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
After takin' a swig o' grog, GreyCloud belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
Say Chris, have you ever had any luck using xmkmf and then make on third
party software source?
I've tried to get a very simple program to compile thru make after xmkmf
on three different oses.
Each stopped at MSimpleProgramTarget(progname) complaining about missing
separator.
This is inside the Makefile and the Imakefile has it there as well. The
references on line say
that a missing tab character is the fault... but if I tab the line at
fault, a new error comes up on that
same line. This does it in os x, Solaris and Linux.
Never tried that setup, and though its a "virtual" package in Debian, I
can't find that executable, and it seems to be pretty old (1998).
What are you trying to build?
I decided to purchase the book on CDE/Motif by Antonio N. Mione that
came with a disk.
Their instructions say to use xmkmf then imake then make. But xmkmf
runs imake automatically now.
I checked the Imake.rules for OS X and Solaris and found that there
isn't MSimpleProgramTarget(),
but does show SimpleProgramTarget(). So I used that and make still
fails. All it did was put the program
name on its own line and that isn't kosher with make. So I'm beginning
to wonder if the changes that
were made are consistent across the board when using Motif libs. There
are other items as well in the old
Imakefiles that now cough up errors. I may have to write to OpenMotif
org and find out what gives.
However, I can just do cc -o progname progname.c -lXt -lXm -lX11 and get
the program built.
However, only solaris built ones work while the os x and linux ones
produce a core file. It looks like I'll
have to lay the blame on OpenMotif org on providing bum builds of their
libraries. The sun libs were already
provided. Which leads to the question does one have to have the CDE
window manager running to prevent
core files from being generated?
--
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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