imake

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

Why don't we just remove xorg-cf-files, imake, and all dependent ports?  Obviously any project still using imake a decade after the build system was declared dead are themselves not well maintained projects and I argue should not be in our port repository.

These are the ports that depend on the archaic build system:

spim
ivtools
magicpoint
tgif
xfig
kdebase3
transfig
arb
rasmol
openvas-server
canna
emiclock
fvwm
kinput2
kxterm
sunclock
tightvnc
vtwm
wmclock
xcb
xearth
xmove
xsnow
xspringies
xtu

--Jeremy

> On Sep 27, 2014, at 19:15, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm going to try to work on the imake problem, specifically that ports using imake fail with Xcode 5 and up because they require a cpp with traditional cpp support which clang doesn't have. 
> 
> In the process I plan to create an xmkmf portgroup to replace the use_xmkmf keyword in base. 
> 
> My proposal is to have this portgroup depend on the latest stable gcc port (currently gcc49) and have it use its cpp in IMAKECPP when the Xcode version is 5 or greater. I tried this with one port already and was able to build it on Yosemite beta. 
> 
> Let me know if you have any objections to this proposal or if you have other ideas how to solve this problem.
> 
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