Re: Fixing Imake

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Hangon Suhaib.

This is Imake, the makefile generator we are talking about, not the rest
of X.

Unless Imake reads the bitmaps and fonts itself, this will just allow
Imake to read source files and makefiles with CRLF.

AUTOMODE converts M$ CRLF to Unix LF.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo@msu.edu>; "'Robert Collins'"
<robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: RE: Fixing Imake


>
> > It turns out that the general target is being used.  Below is
> > the imake
> > target generation command:
> > gcc -o imake  -O -I../../include
> > -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 imake.o
> >
> > Should I throw automode.o on the end?
>
>
>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOO
> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> unless you know how to read bitmaps and fonts files properly with M$
CR\LF
> crap
> inserted.
>
> Suhaib
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:07 AM
> > > To: Harold Hunt; Cygx (E-mail)
> > > Subject: Re: Fixing Imake
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> > > To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:46 PM
> > > Subject: Fixing Imake
> > >
> > >
> > > > Here's a line from xc/config/imake/Makefile.ini
> > > >
> > > > imake.exe:: imake.obj
> > > > cl -nologo imake.obj libc.lib kernel32.lib
> > > >
> > > > Anyone else think that linking with kernel32.lib might be
> > > the root of
> > > the
> > > > problem?
> > > >
> > > > Harold
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Nope. kernel32 is always linked in implicitly. What will be
> > > an issue is
> > > if
> > > a) Imake is using win32 file read and write calls or
> > > b) it doesn't set the fhandle to text mode when it opened,
> > or brefore
> > > reads occur.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> >
>