[Gllug] compiling tlearn

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Thu Oct 9 15:03:46 UTC 2003


Tethys wrote:

>Xander D Harkness writes:
>
>  
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>>Imakefile
>>
>>Having no Makefile, no README or INSTALL file I was hoping someone might 
>>give me a few hints as to how to proceed.
>>    
>>
>
>Imakefile... bleugh! Use "xmkmf -a" to convert your Imakefile into a
>Makefile. Cross your fingers and hope it works. My success rate with
>Imakefiles has typically been around 40%, and the rest have needed
>manual hacking afterwards to get them to work. In days gone by, many
>projects were built like this. Fortunately, GNU autoconf has superseded
>imake for most projects these days.
>
Woopee! It worked.

Thanks very much indeed.  Now off to read the manual on how to use the 
program :-)

Kind regards
Xander


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