Request for volunteers: Find packages that rely on imake

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Mon Sep 26 18:53:16 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:54 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Now that X.Org X11R7 has been autotooled and no longer uses imake
> as a build system, imake is more or less deprecated by X.Org.  This
> means it is about to become a second class citizen overall, and
> eventually is likely to just die.

What's the equivalent of using the SDK in the new X.Org world?

How is an external driver for X (eg synaptics) supposed/recommended to
maintain compatibility with old/new build methods? 

Paul




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