WITHOUT_GCC flag disables installation of /usr/bin/cpp too -- is it Ok?

Dimitry Andric dim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 7 17:17:22 UTC 2011


On 2011-09-07 18:10, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>    I'm building NanoBSD image based on latest HEAD sources. I've added
> WITHOUT_GCC to install configuration, as I don't need gcc/g++ (it is
> documented in man src.conf as disabling exactly gcc and g++), but it
> affect /usr/bin/cpp too. And I need cpp for some config processing.
>
>   Is it bug in documentation (man src.conf) or build system? I know
> about WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN, and it seems reasonable, that
> WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN disables cpp too, but not WITHOUT_GCC :(.

It's a bug in the documentation.  WITHOUT_GCC actually disables at
least the following executables:

/usr/bin/c++
/usr/bin/c++filt
/usr/bin/CC
/usr/bin/cc
/usr/bin/cpp
/usr/bin/g++
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcov
/usr/libexec/cc1
/usr/libexec/cc1plus


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