[7451] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Thu Dec 16 11:42:08 1999
Message-Id: <199912161641.QAA04461@egon.jyrc.org>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:41:21 EST."
<199912161541.KAA04340@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:41:51 +0000
From: chad brown <yandros@akamai.com>
> > a) xscreensaver uses imake. On athena suns, this basically sucks,
> > because the imake config files suck (by default, they don't work).
>
> Could you please justify this assertion?
Ooops. Looking more closely, I see that the imake files are only
breaking with gcc, not with the default compiler. (I don't have the
attachandrun script for the sunsoft compiler as the default `cc' in my
path.) This is what I had meant by `imake config files suck' and the
rest of the paragraph wherein I describe how I used to maintain my own
tree of image config files in order to be able to use gcc.
Sorry that I wasn't more precise about ``don't work''; they ``dont'
work'' because the Imakefile specifies use of gcc, but the solaris
imake config is incompatible.
chad
