[TUHS] "Imake: an obsolete build tool" -- anybody got this?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 02:08:23 AEST 2025


Sorry, I'm looking for the paper, not imake itself :-)

I stopped typing
imake
many decades ago, and feel better for that fact.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> ron minnich wrote in
>  <CAP6exY+4hfjs0rfMA-pSRYj0Qi5SiXM+qqyCyJdErws9HYHpwQ at mail.gmail.com>:
>
>  |I know it's out there, I just can't find it.
>
>   Name:         xorg-imake
>   Path:         /usr/ports/xorg
>   Version:      1.0.10
>   Release:      1
>   Description:  imake build system
>   URL:          http://xorg.freedesktop.org
>   Maintainer:   CRUX Xorg Team, xorg-ports at crux dot nu
>   Dependencies: xorg-cf-files,xorg-xorgproto
>
> ...
>
>   name=xorg-imake
>   version=1.0.10
>   release=1
>   source=(https://www.x.org/releases/individual/util/imake-$version.tar.xz
> )
>
>   build() {
>           cd imake-$version
>
>           ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
>           make
>           make DESTDIR=$PKG install
>   }
>
>  |It's also called the "imake rhymes with mistake" paper,  a nice companion
>  |to "going for baroque..."
>
> i hate it.
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>
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