[16511] in Athena Bugs
Solaris xrdb -cpp broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sat Nov 28 11:52:50 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:52:46 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: wdc@MIT.EDU
(Bill, can you report this to Sun?)
According to the xrdb man page:
-cpp filename
This option specifies the pathname of the C prepro-
cessor program to be used. Although xrdb was
designed to use CPP, any program that acts as a
filter and accepts the -D, -I, and -U options may be
used.
However, in Solaris 2.6, it doesn't actually use -D, -I, and -U flags,
it passes #define, #include, and #undef directives in as part of the
input (this can be seen with truss, or by reading the source). This
means you can't actually use anything other than cpp for your cpp: in
particular, you can't use m4, which works fine on any OS other than
Solaris.
-- Dan
