Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:23:44 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base? Message-ID: <51B7A370.3010307@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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Am 12.06.2013 00:11, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin: > 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? Shouldn't we fix calendar and imake so that they can use a modern cpp, instead of going back 25 years? Or am I missing the point here?
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