xmkmf generates bad Makefiles

[news.spiegl@kascada.com (Andy Spiegl)]

Hi!

whenever I do a xmkmf to get a Makefile from an Imakefile I have
to do manual editing of the Makefile before I can use it.  All the
comment lines start with
 XCOMM
instead of
 #

I don't have this problem at other unix machines (at work), so I
suppose it could be a debian misconfiguration.  Also, I found a
reference to this problem in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules:

/*
 * Translate XCOMM into pound sign with sed, rather than passing -DXCOMM=XCOMM
 * to cpp, because that trick does not work on all ANSI C preprocessors.
 * Also delete line numbers from the cpp output (-P is not portable, I guess).
 */
#ifndef CppSedMagic
#define CppSedMagic sed -e '/^#  *[0-9][0-9]*  *.*$$/d' -e '/^XCOMM$$/s//#/' \
  -e '/^XCOMM[a-zA-Z0-9_]/s/^XCOMM/#/'
#endif /* CppSedMagic */

But I have no idea how to make use of this.  Anyone?

Thanks,
 Andy.

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