David Dawes writes: > >I see in the imake.c and imakemdep.h that /usr/bin/cpp is > >being hard-coded into the executables. Also many of the > >Makefiles, presumably they are being constructed via imake, > >contain this hard-coded path. Maybe someone better informed > >than me can comment on this. > > imakemdep.h hard-codes it for some platforms. For platforms where a > suitable cpp can reasonably be exptected to be available in $PATH, > the full path doesn't have to be specified there. A lot of platforms > use 'cc -E'. >
Usually cpp doesn't know about the system specific defines. It is used when just a preprocessor is needed. Any version of cpp will do (as long as it's not broken). cc -E knows about system specific defines which may differ between compier versions. Howver cc should be in the path. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
