Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:31:28 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com> Cc: zeising@daemonic.se, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: astro/xearth on redports with clang: /usr/local/lib/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf:451:35: error: '#' is not followed by a macro parameter Message-ID: <50620690.8010507@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20577.59432.798647.91007@gromit.timing.com> References: <201209251438.q8PEcHtv022851@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <5061C930.20007@andric.com> <20577.59432.798647.91007@gromit.timing.com>
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On 2012-09-25 19:21, John Hein wrote: > Dimitry Andric wrote at 17:09 +0200 on Sep 25, 2012: ... > > Imake is obsolete, X.org migrated to autoconf+gmake a long time > > ago, and new software should avoid it. That said, for old > > software, you could just add a dependency on one of the gcc ports, > > or maybe use another C preprocessor that supports -traditional > > mode. I understood ucpp might be able to do the job. > > You could also raise a discussion with the clang folks. > If it's really legitimate preprocessor syntax, clang/cpp > could be fixed perhaps. The problem is that Imake preprocessing depends on the -traditional option[1], which clang does not support, and it is very unlikely[2] that it will ever support it, unless there is huge demand, and somebody willing to implement and maintain it. -Dimitry [1] <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Traditional-Mode.html> [2] <http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4557>
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