On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:45:06PM +0100 I heard the voice of Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, and lo! it spake thus: > > You mention the auto* tools, and although they are good and tested, > the result is definitely not portable outside of the Unix family or > operating systems, and there are much more that have X11.
As well, not everybody is a big fan of auto*... >> * README should explain that if you want to install the manual >> page (and who doesn't?), you should also do "make install.man" >> in addition to "make install". Again, the idea of doing "make >> install.man" went the way of the dodo, but if ctwm keeps it we >> should at least document it. > > From everything I can find (the worst thing with imake is it's > *utter* *lack* *of* *documentation*!), that's the way it's supposed > to be, probably to avoid reinstalling the man pages multiple times > on a shared filesystem in a heterogenous environment. Changing it would require some hackery in higher-level build systems, too. For instance, FreeBSD ports knows that Imake-managed build systems use install.man to install manpages, so it will do the install.man as part of its install process already. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
