On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:35:54PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 06/11/13 15:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. > > Holland from NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional > > (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it > > so that imake can work properly without gcc. > > > > I discovered that some part of the base system still needs a > > traditional preprocessor, like (calendar), what I propose it to > > import tradcpp into the base system (not the version in port right > > now but what will become version 0.2). > > > > It mostly behave like gcpp, and I'm able to properly use calendar > > along with tradcpp with this small patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/tradcpp.diff > > > > Any objections against me importing it? > > Looking at the manual page, it looks like that the only reason is to > support #include's? I think it would be better to just fix it than > importing a new (old) preprocessor...
Diane has proposed a patch to go that way: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin%2F178463&cat= If one wants to review Bapt
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