Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:21:44 -0600 From: John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: zeising@daemonic.se, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: astro/xearth on redports with clang: /usr/local/lib/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf:451:35: error: '#' is not followed by a macro parameter Message-ID: <20577.59432.798647.91007@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <5061C930.20007@andric.com> References: <201209251438.q8PEcHtv022851@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <5061C930.20007@andric.com>
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Dimitry Andric wrote at 17:09 +0200 on Sep 25, 2012: > On 2012-09-25 16:38, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > ... > > $ grep -c imake /usr/ports/INDEX-10 > > 291 > > That's a relatively low number, indeed. :) > > > > This issue must cause problems for > > quite a few other ports. > > So is it an agreed policy to migrate away from > > imake in time for 10-release? > > Imake is obsolete, X.org migrated to autoconf+gmake a long time > ago, and new software should avoid it. That said, for old > software, you could just add a dependency on one of the gcc ports, > or maybe use another C preprocessor that supports -traditional > mode. I understood ucpp might be able to do the job. You could also raise a discussion with the clang folks. If it's really legitimate preprocessor syntax, clang/cpp could be fixed perhaps.
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