[5169] in SIPB bug reports
Ctwm does not run m4 preprocessor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (martins@MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 17 22:37:51 1995
From: martins@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 22:37:30 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
It appears that ctwm in /afs/athena/project/windowmanagers/$bindir/ctwm
does not preprocess the .ctwmrc file through m4, as it should
according to the ctwm man-page.
My startup file has some define(...) in it,
but ctwm flags these as errors, which indicates that m4 was not
invoked to preprocess the file.
Try adding a define(foo, bar) in your .ctwmrc and see if it is flagged
as an error. m4 should just swallow such a line, but it does
not work for me. Running m4 directly on that file: m4 .ctwmrc does
swallow the define.
Thanks for your help,
--- Martin Szummer
