[UPDATE] Fix for the imake build errors.

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 21 09:29:06 PST 2006


Dave Grochowski wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>
>> What's with xorg-cf-files? I was under the impression this was only used
>> to build monolithic xorg?
>>
>>   
> So was I, but some of the ports depend on the templates and
> configuration files for their Imake based builds as well.
> 
> For example, when building graphis/xfig, I get the dreaded Imake build
> error if I do not have xorg-cf-files installed:
> 
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/local/lib/X11/config
> Imakefile.c:16: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory
> imake: Exit code 1.
>  Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/xfig.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/xfig.
> 
> This port also relies on gccmakedep (probably not a coincidence).  I
> don't think there is a way to remove the dependency, since there are
> probably dozens of ports which require these files in order for Imake to
> generate a Makefile.  My assumption is that any ports that use Imake to
> generate their Makefiles need xorg-cf-files and gccmakedep, but I could
> be wrong. If I find some time this week, I can find all the ports which
> use Imake and test whether or not the build works without these two
> dependencies.

I'd appreciate that. In the meantime, I'll just add xorg-cf-files port
to the exp-tree.

Thanks for your work on this Dave.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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