[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

[Martin Costabel]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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> True... and this is fixed in his autoconf as well.  I understand the 
> 'autoconf bugfix delay' issue... I just don't think it justifies 
> including xmkmf and imake which don't work outside of providing a 
> workaround for this autoconf bug =/

After some more reading, I have to come back on this. Have you talked to 
your macports friends about this question? As far as I can tell, 
macports has, as does Fink, quite a few packages, and among them 
heavyweights such as xfig, that depend on xmkmf/imake for their whole 
build system, not only as an aide to autoconf. There are the Xaw3d and 
xpm libraries, some parts of vnc packages, such as tightvnc, plus a 
couple of other packages, that have in their Portfile instead of other 
build directives, simply "use_xmkmf yes".

Maintainers and users of these packages won't be happy if this doesn't 
work any more. I agree fully that it is a terrible build system, but it 
is still used, and you are exaggerating when you say that it didn't work.

-- 
Martin