Gentoo Xfree compile error ( was general question)

[andersons001 at hawaii.rr.com]

>  I have a running Gentoo system, but I am having trouble
> compiling xfree 4.0. The compile errors out and complains 
> that xmkmf is missing. I think to myself, "Yea xmkmf is 
> missing because xfree is not installed yet!". Gee this one
> is confounding.

It would seem that the compiler was not seeing the xmkmf 
that is in a tmp util directory. So I appended that dir to 
my PATH and now the compile seems to be working!

Steve