Request for volunteers: Find packages that rely on imake

Dimitrie O. Paun dimi at lattica.com
Sat Sep 24 23:47:54 UTC 2005


On Sat, September 24, 2005 6:42 pm, Mike A. Harris said:
> The problem that I'm trying to solve right now, is that existing
> software out there does indeed use imake during build, and will
> break if it goes away.  That's the stuff we want to find.  I suspect
> that there are probably a fair number of oldish Motif/Xt/Xaw
> applications out there currently that use imake to build with, and
> will fail soon.

I'm wondering if you can simply nuke it from rawhide and try a
full rebuild -- would that generate a useful list of apps?
This may not be easily doable with the current build system,
but it seems worth a try if it is.

-- 
Dimi




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