Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preproces

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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...

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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