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>In article <3C0EC437.2A63D712@doe.carleton.ca>, Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Is there a way to get xmkmf to create Makefile's with CC and MAKE
>>pointing at the gnu versions?
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>What platform? On Solaris you just edit
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>/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config/site.def
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>Uncomment the following bit:
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>#ifndef HasGcc2
>#define HasGcc2 YES
>#endif


He said he wasn't root so he couldn't do that.


You run xmkmf as normal, then override the variables on the make cmd line.

ie.

 % xmkmf
 % make CC=/usr/gnu/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/gnu/bin/gcc 

If you want to autonmate that, put it in a script.

Why don't you use the system compiler ?

>Ian Gregory

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