Re: Imakefile problems

[Jochen Kuepper <jochen uni-duesseldorf de>]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 Brian E.W. Wood wrote:
>On 11-Aug-98 Jochen Kuepper wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 Brian E.W. Wood wrote:
>> 
>>>imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
>>>imake: No such file or directory
>>>imake: Cannot exec /lib/cpp.
>>>  Stop.
>>>imake: Exit code 1.
>>>  Stop.  
>>>
>>>So I created a link in /lib linking cpp to /usr/local/bin/g++, this yielded
>>>many errors, some representative ones are:
>> 
>> Shouldn't you link /usr/local/bin/cpp to /lib/cpp ?
>
>Actually it was /usr/local/egcs/gcc/cpp, which I of course figured out just
>after posting the question.
>
>I was surprised that the program was looking for it in /lib. Is this a normal
>location for it?

It's history.
Think nowadays only X11 (of the bigs) is using it down there.

Greetings,
Jochen
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