Re: Imake changes in 4.5 break a couple of imake-using software packages

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:33:24PM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
>A change was made to Imake.rules rev. 3.132 that removes dependencies from 
>install targets.

The rationale for this was to have everything created in the build tree
during the build phase, allowing an install from a read-only build tree.
Some of the install target dependencies have since been added back in
though.

>A couple of projects that use imake for configuring Makefiles depended on 
>imake adding dependencies to install:: target so those files were built at 
>install time. This includes at least xgammon [1], xcheckers [2], xfm [3].
>For example in xgammon: previously imake would add XGammon.ad as dependency 
>for install target, now it fails at install like this:
>
>xgammon-0.98a# make install
>/usr/bin/install -c -s  xgammon /usr/X11R6/bin/xgammon
>/usr/bin/install -c -m 0444 XGammon.ad /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XGammon
>install: XGammon.ad: No such file or directory
>*** Error code 71
>
>This is handled by InstallAppDefaults macro which in turn uses 
>InstallNamedTarget from Imake.rules.
>One solution would be to instead add such dependencies to all:: target so they 
>are still not built at install stage, which would seem to be in accordance to 
>made Imake.rules change.

I would modify the Imakefiles to add an AllTarget() for such files.

David
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