Re: Compiling crossfire-0.91.2

[Jason Venner <>]

xmkmf on the sun checks for the environment variable OPENWINHOME.

If it is present, it is used as the base of the path to the config
files.

> From   Thu Jul  7 06:37:58 1994
> To: 
> Subject: Compiling crossfire-0.91.2
> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1994 13:40:51 +0100
> From: Benjamin Thomas Ketteridge <>
> 
> Hi folks, I've been having rather a lot of difficulty compiling crossfire-0.91.2
> under Solaris 2.3 (SunOS 5.3). In fact it was so difficult, I gave up and I'm
> using SunOS 4.1.3 instead! 
> 
> The problems start right at the beginning where xmkmf produces this:
> 
> imake -I/usr/openwin/lib/config
> 
> instead of this:
> 
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/config
> 
> !! And it gets worse from there on! :-(
> The compilation on SunOS 4 is proceeding nicely (now that I've removed the
> few object files the attempt under Solaris 2.3 produced) :-)
> 
> Help?! Ben.
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