cpp -traditional broken?

[Szilveszter Adam]

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.

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Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Budapest
Hungary