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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:15449 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4575 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!periodic.eng.umd.edu!chuckr From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: xfree86 Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 29 Dec 1994 21:30:27 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3dv9pj$d4i@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <adammD1C0Co.Kn8@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: periodic.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Adam Mitchell (adamm@netcom.com) wrote: : this is probably not the place to ask but here goes: : i've installed xfree86 for bsd and cannot compile any : 'standard' code. everything comes with an imakefile : that i run 'xmkmf -a' on to generate a system : makefile. problem is that 'xmkmf -a' reports "imakefile.c:3: : Imake.tmpl: no sufh file or directory." : does anybody know what it's looking for and where i can find it? : also, does anybody know the name of an xfree support group? : thanks and happy holidays! You don't say what version of XFree86 you're running, nor even which implementation of 'bsd'. I run FreeBSD, on two machines, so I hope this is applicable to you. Look into the /usr/X386/lib/X11/config (for XFree86 versions below 3) or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config (for the more up-to-date versions). You should see 40-60 files, with names ending in '.cf' or 'rules' or 'tmpl'. These are configuration files that are specific both to the OS you're running and to the XFree86 version you're running, and some folks customize even that. They tell the X 'imake' program about your local system, so imake can generate a makefile that is perfectly customized for your installation. If the files in the directories I listed above are incomplete or incorrect, you'll have problems building anything for X. So, the first thing that I'd check, I'd go back to wherever I got my software, and make very sure that my config directory had everything it was supposed to have. Your application probably has a '.tmpl' file too, make sure its not missing. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------