re: bin/56882: /usr/bin/cpp useless in base set

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

>  On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:40:01AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>   >  >  cpp is also used by xrdb.
>   >  
>   >  If we care enough about non-devel installations, we should add tradcpp
>   >  and switch xrdb, calendar and the rest to use that.
>  
>  I am fine with importing tradcpp, but are we sure that all of these
>  uses currently use -traditional?
>  
>  (Granted they probably *should* but the question is whether they *do*.)

the alternative (compiler cpp) is *huge*.  /usr/bin/cpp
invokes /usr/libexec/cc1:

-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   1292832 May 30 23:50 /usr/bin/cpp*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  30104152 May 30 23:51 /usr/libexec/cc1*

xrdb's configure looks for a "cpp -traditional" option
being available, and calendar has:

calendar.c:           (void)execl(_PATH_CPP, "cpp", "-traditional", "-P", "-I.",

so i think tradcpp would work for us here, for at least
those two applications.

thanks.


.mrg.