Imake fails

[MJ]

On 19/09/2019 9:21 am, Vlad D. Markov via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:58:07 +1000
> MJ <mafsys1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19/09/2019 5:25 am, Vlad D. Markov via freebsd-questions wrote:
>>> I was hoping to build xpat2 but Imake fails. I've had no issues doing the same thing using Debian.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>>
>>> happy$ xmkmf -a
>>> mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
>>> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/local/lib/X11/config
>>> In file included from Imakefile.c:15:
>>> In file included from /usr/local/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:316:
>>> /usr/local/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules:1674:27: warning: empty character constant [-Winvalid-pp-token]
>>>           for flag in ${MAKEFLAGS} ''; do \                               @@\
>>>                                    ^
>>> In file included from Imakefile.c:15:
>>> /usr/local/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:2144:10: fatal error: ' X11 .rules' file not found
>>> #include ProjectRulesFile
>>>            ^
>>> /usr/local/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:2142:35: note: expanded from macro 'ProjectRulesFile'
>>> # define ProjectRulesFile       Concat3(<,TopLevelProject,.rules>)
>>>                                   ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> /usr/local/lib/X11/config/Imake.rules:256:23: note: expanded from macro 'Concat3'
>>> #define Concat3(a,b,c)a/**/b/**/c
>>>                         ^~~~~~~~~~
>>> 1 warning and 1 error generated.
>>> imake: Exit code 1.
>>>     Stop.
>>
>> You probably want to add uname information etc. to aid in any help.
>>
>>
> FreeBSD happy 12.0-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC  amd64
>
> imake-1.0.8,1
> Name           : imake
> Version        : 1.0.8,1
> Installed on   : Wed Sep 18 14:38:50 2019 EDT
> Origin         : devel/imake
> Architecture   : FreeBSD:12:amd64
> Prefix         : /usr/local
> Categories     : devel
> Licenses       : MIT
> Maintainer     : x11 at FreeBSD.org
> WWW            : https://www.x.org/
> Comment        : Imake and other utilities from X.Org
> Annotations    :
> 	FreeBSD_version: 1200086
> Flat size      : 70.7KiB
> Description    :
> This package contains X.Org's imake, imake config files, and other build-related
> tools.
>
> WWW: https://www.x.org/
>
Are you using ports? I have the same v12 FreeBSD and I just built it from games/xpat2 without a problem. This built imake as well.

Why are you using xmkmf?

Cheers
Mark