general question

[Ray Strode]

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>
>I think to myself, "Yea xmkmf is missing because xfree is not 
>
>installed yet!". Gee this one is confounding.
>
Don't be mislead the the x prefix.  xmkmf conversts imake files to 
regular makefiles.
Imake is a system similar in spirit to automake/autoconf.  Its purpose 
is to produce
a custom made makefile that works well with the platfrom the package is 
being
built on.

--Ray