Christian Hudon wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I find the fracturing of packages into runtime and development sometimes > > doesn't make any sense. In this case, why is imake and xmkmf supplied in > > xbase, but the configuration files they need to run properly in the xdevel > > package. Shouldn't they all be in the same place? It would certainly make > > using and finding them more straight forward. > > Agreed. IMHO imake and xmkmf should be together with their config files... > i.e in the xdevel package. > > 1. They're only used when compiling x binaries. > > 2. Getting a 'xmkmf: file not found' will probably get users thinking "I > need an x development package". Getting a failed xmkmf run will most > probably get the users thinking 'bug!'. >
I agree with 2. I think I was rather confused and required advice on what to do when xmkmf wouldn't work. It certainly got a Slackware using friend thinking Debian was broken. Your comment is slightly misleading however. I assume you mean "bash: xmkmf: command not found". When I ran into this problem xmkmf ran for a while and then stopped with the error "xmkmf: file not found" IIRC. There may be good reasons to do it the way it is done at present of course. Chris Chris
