Subject: RE: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc
From: "Dave Korn" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:20:56 +0100

----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 22 September 2005 11:07

> On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
>> Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only
>> included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make
>> cpp a separate package since gcc is a very large package ?
>> 
>> I have already asked this in cygwin.xfree without any answers.
>> 
>> Any comments ?
> 
> Wrong mailing list.  

  No it isn't really, because the real question is "Could cpp be packaged
separately from gcc", regardless of whether for an X app that needs it or
otherwise, and the answer is "No, it can't be, because the preprocessor is
built into the compiler these days, not a standalone like it used to be; the
seeming standalone cpp.exe is just a driver that invokes cc1.exe with the -E
flag".

[  Historical note: And that's the reason why cygcheck always used to say  

>Not Found: cpp (good!)

because when it was a standalone it used to live in the gcc-lib subdir and
it was generally bad news if you got that in your $PATH, things used to
break.  ]

    cheers,
      DaveK
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