Re: Imake.tmpl not found

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Damien,

You can just do this:

touch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/host.def


Our host.def doesn't really have anything in it, so this should work 
just fine.  I will try to release another fix to XFree86-progs tomorrow 
if an empty host.def takes care of your problem.

Harold

Damien Fisher wrote:

> Hi Harold,
>
> Thanks for replying so quickly!  I upgraded to XFree86-prog 4.3.0-2 and
> that fixed the problem.  However, I am now getting this:
>
> mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/site.def:44: host.def: No such file or
> directory
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/site.def:146: host.def: No such file or
> directory
> imake: Exit code 1.
>   Stop.
>
> I can't find a host.def anywhere.  Again, I'm afraid I have little idea
> of the X build system, so I have no idea how to proceed, or whether this
> is my fault or the package's fault :(.  Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks again,
> Damien
>
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:06:59AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > Damien,
> >
> > Huh... this is interesting.
> >
> > Turns out that Cygwin's tar doesn't work the same as the tar version 
> > that is in the XFree86 souce tree in the utils module.  I built their 
> > "gnu-tar" and used it to build the packages and it did include the 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config directory in the prog package, as it is 
> > supposed to.  I tried messing with the Xprog-list and Xprog-excl files 
> > to get Cygwin's tar to build the archive properly, but it just wouldn't 
> > do it.  I will be uploading XFree86-prog-4.3.0-2.tar.bz2 shortly.
> >
> > Thanks for testing,
> >
> > Harold