John Darrington writes: > Looking at the mass of subsitions in xfig, it seems to me that xfig is > fighting against imake.
I would rather say that it's filling in the holes in imake's system knowledge. > It has been a few years since I used imake, but I seem to remember > there was the possibility to have a "vendor" specific control file. > In our case Guix is the vendor, so perhaps we should have a guix.cf > file in imake. That sounds like a nice solution. > Perhaps it would be better to have a imake-build-system which > generated it dynamically. I was trying to avoid this until there was a need from more packages. I'm not familiar with many projects that still use imake, but it appears you might be, with your xboing patch ;) Btw, I did push a change to xfig and transfig that should let them build for i686 (which I tested locally now) and mips (which I don't have the means to check locally). -- Eric Bavier Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
