David Thompson wrote:

> How do I subvert the Apple preprocessor in the Apple tools for 10.2 
> (2nd update)? I thought I was supposed to use -no-cpp-precomp, but I'm 
> trying to compile ddd (Data Display Debugger) and using that flag 
> still comes up with pp errors.

Perhaps they are bonafide syntax errors?  Sometimes things that work if the
preprocessor is run separately are token-pasting misunderstandings, and if
it involved macros that are specific to Darwin, you would see this.

>
> <RANT>
> I would report a bug, but it seems like I'm always reporting bugs and 
> then I'm asked to try and come up with a small example that shows the 
> bug which takes me more time than just writing shell scripts to work 
> around my problems. For example, with ddd, if I compile each bad file 
> in two steps, preprocess then compile it works. Sometimes it would 
> just be nice if the compiler crew would get a few open source products 
> set up as test subjects. Plus some of the code in ddd is using 
> templates and I don't have time to track down where the problem might 
> be coming.
> </RANT>

We do have thousands of open source projects that are test subjects - you're
the first person I've heard of that's tried to compile ddd though. 
 Isn't there a Fink
or gnu-darwin binary already?  In any case, if you mention ddd versions 
and the
like, I can fire up a build and see if it reproduces.

Stan




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