How do I use xmkmf for Motif clients?
[Last modified: July 96] Answer: This advice comes from dbrooks@osf.org. For another answer, see the question immediately following this one (“How do I use imake with Motif 2.0?”). There are a number of intractable problems with using X configuration files and xmkmf, while trying to make it easy to build Motif. Not the least of these, but one I’ve never heard mentioned yet, is that the rules for contructing the names of shared library macros are machine-dependent, and in the various xxxLib.tmpl files. Do we edit all those files to add definitions for XMLIB, DEPXMLIB, etc., or do we put a maze of #ifdefs into the Motif.tmpl file? Please note that, if you install Motif, it overwrites your installed Imake.tmpl with one that includes Motif.tmpl and Motif.rules. With those caveats, I think the following guidelines will help. David Brooks OSF Clients in the X11R5 release use the xmkmf command to build Makefiles. In general, the xmkmf command cannot be used for Motif clients, because of the n
