On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Kean Johnston wrote: > At or about line 315 or a top-of-tree config/imake/imakemdep.h there is > code that looks like this: > #if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(USE_CC_E) > #define USE_CC_E > ... > #endif
> I dont know when this was added, or even particularly why, but it seems > wrong to me. Just because you are using GCC does NOT mean you want to > use gcc -E as your CPP. Yes, it does. > In fact, I have just encountered a case where it > even breaks things in unexpected ways. Here's the problem. I wanted to > add the -mcpu=i686 -march=i586 lines to my .cf file. But gcc defines > symbols like -D__i586__, -Di586, -D__i586 etc, which means that the > generated Makefiles end up with -march=1 -mcpu=i686. This of course > causes gcc to fail. Beef up SCO's section in Imake.cf to more closely match Linux's. Perhaps this should be more globally done for any platform using GCC. > Does anyone have any idea why this was deemed necessary, s/ deemed//. Builds break on platforms where gcc is not the default compiler. > and would > anyone be heartbroken if I removed that block of code? Such a patch would be rejected. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
