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Re: x11/xrdb: pkgsrc configures wrong path to cpp



On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:55:59PM +0100, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> I'm a little surprised that this uses cpp and not tradcpp.  Is that
> intentional?  I was under the impression most X stuff needed tradcpp
> for things like this.

AFAICT the package never used tradcpp. I don't use xrdb AFAIK, so
someone else will have to speak up if cpp is not working and we need
to use tradcpp.

> I also wonder whether this needs to be split for native vs cross
> builds: does it _only_ bake the path into the executable, or does it
> _also_ use it at build-time?  See devel/imake for an example that does
> both.

cpp is not used during the build.
 Thomas


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