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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: a bad test for XFree86 in configure
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Looking at the big picture, why are we trying to detect XFree86 at
all??  Isn't this just another X11 implementation?

We should probably be doing things more generically.  For example, we
look for libraries in /usr/openwin/lib because Sun's implementation of
X11 uses it.  Similarily, if XFree86 puts its libraries in
/usr/I_felt_like_naming_it_this/lib , we should expect to look there
as well.

In general,

#ifdef XFREE86

is just like

#ifdef SUNOS

i.e. evil.

Martin

