On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> CentOS4 ships with a functional version of imake and xmkmf.
> SL4 ships with imake but no xmkmf, and the imake there doesn't
> seem to work, at least not without a lot of messing around.
>
> I'm trying to build a bunch of legacy apps, and they require
> imake.  I don't know autoconf, and don't have time to try to
> suss out how to convcert everything right now.
>
> First, is there an RPM with imake and xmkmf that works for SL4?
> Secondly, why does the xorg with CentOS ship with this while SL
> doesn't?  Did someone at CentOS just fix this?  Or is it because
> 4.4 had it (the CentOS version I have available) but 4.6 doesn't
> (the SL version I have available)?

Hmm...

% cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 4.6 (Beryllium)
% rpm -qif /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
Name        : xorg-x11-devel               Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 6.8.2                             Vendor: Scientific Linux
Release     : 1.EL.33.0.4                   Build Date: Thu Jun 12 
00:01:17 2008
Install Date: Tue Jun 17 03:41:05 2008      Build Host: yort.fnal.gov
Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM: 
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4.src.rpm
Size        : 13157213                         License: MIT/X11, and 
others
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu Jun 12 16:14:35 2008, Key ID da6ad00882fd17b2
URL         : http://xorg.freedesktop.org
Summary     : X Window System application development package
Description :
This development package includes the libraries, header files and
documentation needed for developing applications for the X window system.

And IIRC, it works too.

- Stephan

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