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

Joe Pfeiffer wrote: 
Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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?


automake creates makefiles.  It's got an unbelievably steep learning
curve, but once you've climbed it, it's really easy to use.


It's only steep because the documentation is pretty crappily layed
out, and there has been a lot of obsolete docs on the net.

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


Nobody else used imake.  What they've done is to remove an
incompatibility.

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

Ummm, no.  tgz is just an archive, and fails to integrate with package
managers.  rpm and deb both are really package formats.

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