>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 04:52:09 GMT
>From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@domino.org>

>I feel compelled to point out that, since most (all?) of the .s and .S
>files in the kernel use constants defined in .h files, they *need* to
>use cpp, unless you propose to add a whole lot of shit to assym.h or
>do some gross m4 hackery.
>
>So, at least for the kernel, this discussion is moot.

I think the problems with ' characters can be eliminated by adding
-traditional-cpp to the mkdep options.  I'll try this tonight:

*** Makefile.i386~	Wed Feb  7 12:37:29 1996
--- Makefile.i386	Wed Feb  7 12:43:58 1996
***************
*** 153,159 ****
  depend: .depend
  .depend: ${SRCS} assym.h vnode_if.h param.c
! 	mkdep -x assembler-with-cpp ${AFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${I386}/i386/locore.s
  	mkdep -a ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} vnode_if.c param.c ioconf.c ${CFILES}
! 	mkdep -a -x assembler-with-cpp ${AFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${SFILES}
  	mkdep -a ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${PARAM} ${I386}/i386/genassym.c
  
--- 153,161 ----
  depend: .depend
  .depend: ${SRCS} assym.h vnode_if.h param.c
! 	mkdep -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp ${AFLAGS} \
! 	    ${CPPFLAGS} ${I386}/i386/locore.s
  	mkdep -a ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} vnode_if.c param.c ioconf.c ${CFILES}
! 	mkdep -a -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp ${AFLAGS} \
! 	    ${CPPFLAGS} ${SFILES}
  	mkdep -a ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${PARAM} ${I386}/i386/genassym.c
  
  
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