[ Just one comment about one part of your message 8-]

> (BTW supping xsrc is great. Maybe a World
> option could be added to its Makefile which does a make build-xc,
> install-xc, build-contrib, install-contrib, in that order, as you
> can't build-contrib without installing xmkmf from xc first.)

Not true.  You can do something like:

all:
        cd xc ; make World
        cd contrib ; PATH=../xc/config/imake:$$PATH \
            sh ../xc/config/util/xmkmf -a ../xc ../contrib
        cd contrib ; make

which works very well.



chris