"make install" in the Xorg trunk does not create the startup links for
/etc/init.d/xprint in the single runlevel dirs, e.g. /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ etc.

Two problems:
1. The installation procedure dramatically differs between the single Linux and
Unix versions
2. Some official tools like the LSB /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd seem to have no
way to specify an alternative "root" dir, e.g. installing into a temporary
localtion using "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/xptestinstall002" does not work...
;-(

Right now the xprint.spec for RPM uses the following sequence to create the
neccesary links:
-- snip --
%post
if [ -x /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd ] ; then
    # (hopefully) LSB-compliant distribution
    /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/xprint
else
    if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] ; then
        if [ $1 = 1 ]; then
            /sbin/chkconfig --add xprint
        fi
    else
        # SuSE(-like) ?
        if [ -d /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/ ] ; then
            echo "# Detected SuSE(-like) distribution"
            echo "# Creating links..."
            ln -sf ../xprint /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K21xprint
            ln -sf ../xprint /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S21xprint
            ln -sf ../xprint /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K21xprint
            ln -sf ../xprint /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S21xprint

            # Older SuSE versions (like SuSE 6.4) do not have /etc/init.d/
            if [ ! -f /etc/rc.d/xprint ] ; then
                echo "# Creating old SuSE compatibility link..."
                ln -s /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/xprint
            fi
        else
            # RedHat(-like) ?
            if [ -d "/etc/rc1.d" -a -d "/etc/init.d/" ] ; then
                echo "# Detected RedHat(-like) distribution"
                echo "# Creating links..."             
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S61xprint
                ln -sf /etc/init.d/xprint /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K61xprint
            else
                echo "# Unsupported version of Linux, cannot create links for
/etc/init.d/."
                exit 1
            fi
        fi
    fi
fi
-- snip --

It seems we have to stick something similar into the Imakefile build system..
;-/

Egbert/Drew:
Any suggestions/ideas ? Are there any standard tools in LSB and/or Debian which
work even with the installation to a temporary location ?