Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:41:38 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpp -traditional broken? Message-ID: <20031226174138.GA1045@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx> In-Reply-To: <20031226141937.GA78132@FreeBSD.org.ua> References: <20031226141937.GA78132@FreeBSD.org.ua>
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Hello, On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:19:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > I was wondering why my today's rebuild of XFree86-4-clients > gave me the black-n-white xdm(1) greeting window, upsetting > me a bit. It turned out to be a problem with recent cpp(1) > version. > > The /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources file is generated by > cpp(1); on RELENG_4, the following command > > echo '/**/#if FOO' | cpp -P -traditional > > gives you "#if FOO" (as expected by the XFree86 build), > while on 5.2-CURRENT it gives you nothing, and results in > missing parts of the Xresources file, i.e., the new cpp(1) > treats '/**/#if' as a preprocessing directive, while the > old cpp(1) version didn't. > > This is with system GCC 3.3.3 compiler. Is this a known > issue? I don't know if it is known or not, but this exact issue has bitten me yesterday when I tried to build an older X port (olvwm) and there it resulted in the build being broken. I had to fix it by manually editing the file in question to include the correct syntax. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary
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