Imake is an old-fashioned make system used for building the X Window System and some third-party XWindows and Motif programs.
Most uses of imake are being replaced by autoconf, which does the same job but more flexibly. For example, the configure script in autoconf has a --help option which shows the user what options are available; there is no equivalent in imake. If your project uses imake, please consider learning autoconf.
See the imake documentation for more information.
When maketool detects that the current directory is using automake, the following commands appear in the Build menu.
Performs all the actions necessary to update the Makefile from whatever files it depends on. This is usually all you ever need to do: it performs all the other commands listed below but in the correct order and only if they are necessary.
The output appears in the Log window.
Runs the xmkmf command to generate Makefile from Imakefile.
The output appears in the Log window.