Re: rpcgen with env variable CPP set to "cc -E"

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <18316.31633.717716.806179%ficus.home@localhost>,
Anthony Mallet  <anthony.mallet%useless-ficus.net@localhost> wrote:
>Christos Zoulas writes:
>| Not to discourage you, but this patch creates more problems than it solves,
>| and it introduces a non-portable rpcgen behavior. If you want to use a custom
>| cpp, go a step further and make a shell script that behaves the way you want
>| instead of modifying the source... I think it would be easier to make this
>| an argv vector and keep using execv...
>
>What is the non-portable behaviour?

That it uses popen to fork jobs and it will break on unquoted spaces.

>Actually, I'm not trying to use a custom cpp. I would rather have rpcgen
>completely ignore $CPP.
>I'm just fighting with autoconf and trying to handle the fact that it
>insists on defining cpp as "cc -E". Instead of writing a specifig hack
>such as "unset CPP" (since other rpcgen on other OS I have access too
>don't use the CPP variable) I was trying to solve this in a better
>way. And I also had the feeling that defing CPP as "cc -E" is not that
>stupid after all.
>
>Now I agree that my patch raises some problem. The first one beeing that
>"cc -E" wants files ending in .c. Of course I overlooked that at
>first...
>
>Maybe better to forget about all that mess :)

Or change our rpcgen to use $RPCGEN_CPP...

christos