[Info-vax] xmkmf and make

[Michael Kraemer]

GreyCloud schrieb:

> Seems that the UNIX community has lost along the way the documentation 
> on how they wrote
> the templates and definition files.  Even wikipedia can't find the docs.

Wikipedia is crap, at times, so if you don't find it there,
it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html

has a collection of X related links,
pointing e.g. to

http://www.snake.net/software/imake-stuff/imake-faq.html

maybe you find some useful info there.

> It was a good concept, but nothing was passed on from the originator it 
> seems.

It is a somewhat strange concept,
but the Linux "community" has spoiled it
and invented sth even worse: "configure".
Apart from that, Imakefiles & Co are mostly handled like LaTeX sources
and shell scripts:
you never write them from scratch, but copy one that once has worked.