From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 11 22:42:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E722A56; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:42:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (diana.db.net [66.113.102.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28ED811BE; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from night.db.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diana.db.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBE92AA362; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:42:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: by night.db.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C87B1CC0E; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:42:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:42:37 -0500 From: Diane Bruce To: d@delphij.net Subject: Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base? Message-ID: <20130611224237.GA33828@night.db.net> References: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51B7A64A.5070108@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51B7A64A.5070108@delphij.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:42:47 -0000 On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:35:54PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 06/11/13 15:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. > > Holland from NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional > > (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it > > so that imake can work properly without gcc. > > > > I discovered that some part of the base system still needs a > > traditional preprocessor, like (calendar), what I propose it to > > import tradcpp into the base system (not the version in port right > > now but what will become version 0.2). > > > > It mostly behave like gcpp, and I'm able to properly use calendar > > along with tradcpp with this small patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/tradcpp.diff > > > > Any objections against me importing it? > > Looking at the manual page, it looks like that the only reason is to > support #include's? I think it would be better to just fix it than > importing a new (old) preprocessor... > > Cheers, > - -- > Xin LI https://www.delphij.net/ > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJRt6ZKAAoJEG80Jeu8UPuzrX4IAJj1hg/+Vh8oGuc2vVeuAU0W > 6brYFkZFlgIicyC2k6BFuVU6jTyn3KelFyMxVgzk2S/5fI6lHh6YCHB/XRCDEzHg > GG1TELsFKOgAUsA1xp/uDIKTJKqR2Wef2J3oaCl2L5FL0z/cySopPMLOcd08MiCA > wOgr3qcPAfaxROOQJaZTs6lbUOs1zKB7RrtuCaYUB5fEwJ4uZwyKmkZtqEAK7WGT > 8gDA78nfKxOLHE4XOBE1McO3sFrCQQoj+uAKS0tbRt4+qAD8rRq4T8H5BEk+eNqF > NSPjFRKFrTXKSTnK4U+MBOcw7DhlOcabAz9Lpl6nD5hOzz2mUk4YG3pH/jY9zhg= > =dsBw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" http://people.FreeBSD.org/~db/calendar.diff removes cpp from calendar. There is also an open PR 178463 - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db