We need to know a little bit more information on what you're trying to compile. 

http://www.snake.net/software/imake-stuff/imake-faq.html#TOC_14

On 9 Nov 2011, at 0022, Jerome Roccaz wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I need to use imake to compile some old libraries. Executing imake I obtain
> this message : 
> 
> jerome@GRELPT0464 src]$ imake
> Imakefile.c:34: erreur: Imake.tmpl : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> imake: Exit code 1.
>  Stop.
> 
> I've installed the last release of imake via yum update. I'm under SL6.
> I've read that template files should be under such a path :
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config ... but haven't found such a path or nearly the same.
> 
> thanks