>> Feed the config file thru cpp before config-ing.
> Why should I if config can do it for me?

I was afraid of this when I saw the first remark about cpp.

*Please* don't do this.  cpp is *not* a general-purpose macro
preprocessor.  The X people made that mistake with imake, and have
accreted a huge pile of hackery to get around the consequences thereof,
from XCOMM to @@ to some ugly attempts in C code to intuit how this
particular preprocessor works.

Run your config files through cpp if you must.  But please don't
inflict it on the rest of us.

					der Mouse

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