Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Cc: Subject: RE: xrdb needs cpp, but i do not need gcc Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:20:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050922100657.GC24363@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: ----Original Message---- >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 22 September 2005 11:07 > On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: >> Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only >> included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make >> cpp a separate package since gcc is a very large package ? >> >> I have already asked this in cygwin.xfree without any answers. >> >> Any comments ? > > Wrong mailing list. No it isn't really, because the real question is "Could cpp be packaged separately from gcc", regardless of whether for an X app that needs it or otherwise, and the answer is "No, it can't be, because the preprocessor is built into the compiler these days, not a standalone like it used to be; the seeming standalone cpp.exe is just a driver that invokes cc1.exe with the -E flag". [ Historical note: And that's the reason why cygcheck always used to say >Not Found: cpp (good!) because when it was a standalone it used to live in the gcc-lib subdir and it was generally bad news if you got that in your $PATH, things used to break. ] cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/