Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:28:32 -0500 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base? Message-ID: <20130611222832.GA27293@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:11:24AM +0200, 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? > > regards, > Bapt I rewrote calendar already to not use cpp at all. There is an open PR on it. - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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