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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Imake vs. "cpp" (was Re: Imake on the NeXT)
Message-ID: <3577@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 20:58:57 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>This is after it has been run through cpp.  Is cpp just really bed on
>the NeXT, or what?

Is there any reason why "imake" doesn't just use the DECUS "cpp", which
is supplied in source form with X11R4?  This would eliminate its
dependency on a piece of software that:

	1) is generally not supplied in source form by vendors;

	2) often has been tweaked to improve its ability to preprocess C
	   - that being, after all, its role in life - in ways that
	   interfere with its use by "imake";

	3) may not even *exist* on some systems.