On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:14:04PM -0500, Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a followup to my question yesterday.  One of the other
> developers at the OSU Radio Observatory mentioned at this mornings
> meeting that he had problems compiling one of our analysis programs on
> his home machine.  This set me to thinking, 1.6.1 had GCC 2.95.x, but
> -current is now using 3.3.2.  Since imake uses cpp, this raised a
> rather interesting question in my mind.  My question is this.  Could
> the errors from imake rather be an issue with the way that cpp for gcc
> 3.3.2 is now handling lines like the following from XView.cf:
> 
>     /**/###########################################################################
>     /**/# @(#)XView.cf      1.10 09 Feb 1992 SMI
>     /**/# XView.cf for XView release 3.0.  Specify site preferences here.
> 
> I also remembered that several months ago, I did a 1.6.1 build with
> the xsrc from current so that I would have the support for the Radeon
> 9500Pro which came in with 4.3.  I never saw the problem there, which
> I think makes my idea about gcc more likely.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas if I am right?  I sure hope there is a way to
> avoid patching the lines in the file, since I remember this is a
> fairly common construct in 3rd party software using imake/xmkmf.
 
I think you're right:

XView.rules:1: invalid preprocessing directive ###
XView.rules:2: invalid preprocessing directive #@
XView.rules:3: invalid preprocessing directive #XView

From XView.rules:

/**/###########################################################################
/**/# @(#)XView.rules   1.8 12 May 1993 SMI
/**/# XView.rules for XView release 3.0.  Imake rules needed by distribution.

 
> - Doug
> 
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> Douglas Wade Needham - KA8ZRT        UN*X Consultant & UW/BSD kernel programmer
> Email:  cinnion @ ka8zrt . com       http://cinnion.ka8zrt.com