Re: x.org dropped imake, now what is the best way to convert existing Imakefile so it can be used with automake et all?

Jan Panteltje wrote: 
All my X windows applications use imake (Imakefile and xmkmf).
I have read somewhere that in the latest X release from X.org
imake is no longer supported, and automake should be used.
That would for require me to release versions for that.
What is the shortest path to go from an imake file to a makefile
or whatever (I dunno) that automake uses?

And why do they create this incompatibility? Imake worked just fine
(at least for me), and was very simple to use.

Feels a bit like leaving tgz for rpm ... marketing move? 

Well, with practically no documentation on how to use it,
modify it, or how it works, it was about as useful as tits
on a bull. Maybe if someone had written a manual for it, it
might have lasted a bit longer;)
.

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