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Re: How set xmkmf's Makefile's MAKE & CC?

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From: Ian Gregory
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:15
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In article <3C0EC437.2A63D712@doe.carleton.ca>, Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma wrote:

>I'm having difficulties building an application (tightVNC).  It is because
>when I type xmkmf, it creates a bunch of Makefiles with CC and MAKE
>pointing to nonGnu executables.  What what I've been able to ferrit out,
>those paths are hardwired into the xmkmf executale when it is built.
>Not being a superuser, I can't go to the locations pointed to by CC and
>MAKE and create soft links to the gnu counterparts.   Manually changing
>the Makefile's don't seem to work because they always get changed back.
>
>Is there a way to get xmkmf to create Makefile's with CC and MAKE
>pointing at the gnu versions?

What platform? On Solaris you just edit

/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config/site.def

Uncomment the following bit:

#ifndef HasGcc2
#define HasGcc2 YES
#endif

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Ian Gregory
Systems and Applications Manager
Learning and Information Services
University of Hertfordshire
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