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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: do you need sds to get cpp
Keywords: cpp sds isc 386ix
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.032345.4910@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:23:45 GMT
References: <326@tslwat.UUCP> <1990Aug30.225933.22731@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Aug30.225933.22731@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <326@tslwat.UUCP> louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates) writes:
>>[does cpp come with the base system]
>Cpp is part of the SDS, not part of the base OS.

On ISC Unix at least, the kernel config subset which comes with the base
system contains /lib/idcpp, which is the C preprocessor that the kernel
builder uses and is as far as I can tell the same as /bin/cpp.

Unless your version of Unix builds its kernel very differently from the way
that AT&T does I'd expect to find it on other versions as well.

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