18 Mar
2025
18 Mar
'25
4:24 p.m.
https://archive.org/details/login_jan94/page/n31/mode/2up?q=imake
"I said, in a review I wrote for this newsletter that Software Portability
with imake [Paul DuBois, 1993. Software Portability with imake. O'Reilly &
Associ¬ ates, Inc.] is a fine book: well-written, well-edited, and useful.
Here, I'll argue that it's a fine book about a dreadful idea: imake.
Actually, I've seen enough imake-like make front-ends to suspect that such
things are as common as peas. I don't like any of them. Why?"
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith(a)oracle.com> wrote:
On 3/18/25 09:03, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
ron minnich wrote in
<CAP6exY+4hfjs0rfMA-pSRYj0Qi5SiXM+qqyCyJdErws9HYHpwQ(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|I know it's out there, I just can't find it.
name=xorg-imake
version=1.0.10
release=1
source=(
https://www.x.org/releases/individual/util/imake-$version.tar.xz)
Yes, we still maintain Imake upstream at X.Org, but every new release for
years
has had notes like:
The X Window System used imake extensively up through the X11R6.9
release,
for both full builds within the source tree and external software.
X moved off of imake for its build system in 2005 for X11R7.0 and later
releases, but still provides imake for building existing external
software
programs that have not yet converted, though we are not actively
maintaining
it for new OS or platform releases.
Anyone shipping software still using imake to build should be working on
moving to something that is still adding support for new platforms and
runtimes.
as seen in
https://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2024-January/061524.html
We don't even use Imake to build itself - since 2005 it has been built with
autoconf & automake, and this year I merged the changes to let it build
with
meson instead:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/imake/-/merge_requests/13
But I don't have a copy of the paper referred to in the first email in this
thread, and both the sites we link to for Imake information from the Imake
README seem to have died now:
https://www.snake.net/software/imake-stuff/
https://www.kitebird.com/imake-book/
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith(a)oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris