Re: pkg/39879: libX11 canoot build on systems with non-GNU 'cpp' (in this case, IRIX)

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39879; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        srcshelton%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39879: libX11 canoot build on systems with non-GNU 'cpp'
 (in this case, IRIX)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:05:27 +0100

 Tobias Nygren wrote:
 >  I don't think it's worth infrastructure changes for just a handful of
 >  packages that are misbehaving badly by abusing the preprocessor to
 >  generate manpages. We could however invert the above compiler check to
 >  match everything that is "not GCC".
 
 When you check for a specific compiler you know that its -E option
 generates PP output. But if you revert to "not GCC" you can't assume
 this anymore. Hence, a small infrastructure change.
 
 I believe we need wrappers to handle -E option. Currently, only
 mk/compiler/xls.mk makes a wrapper. This is inconsistent.
 
 Alex