Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add xfig.

[Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>]

John Darrington writes:

> Looking at the mass of subsitions in xfig, it seems to me that xfig is
> fighting against imake.

I would rather say that it's filling in the holes in imake's system
knowledge.

> It has been a few years since I used imake, but I seem to remember
> there was the possibility to have a "vendor" specific control file.
> In our case Guix is the vendor, so perhaps we should have a guix.cf
> file in imake.

That sounds like a nice solution.

> Perhaps it would be better to have a imake-build-system which
> generated it dynamically.

I was trying to avoid this until there was a need from more packages.
I'm not familiar with many projects that still use imake, but it appears
you might be, with your xboing patch ;)

Btw, I did push a change to xfig and transfig that should let them build
for i686 (which I tested locally now) and mips (which I don't have the
means to check locally).

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