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?
>

$ man xmkmf


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