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martins@MIT.EDU: Ctwm does not run m4 preprocessor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Feb 17 22:38:58 1995
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 22:37:56 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Ctwm does not run m4 preprocessor
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
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