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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: do you need sds to get cpp
Keywords: cpp sds isc 386ix
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.225933.22731@virtech.uucp>
Date: 30 Aug 90 22:59:33 GMT
References: <326@tslwat.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <326@tslwat.UUCP> louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates) writes:
>We have a program whose input  is processed by the C preprocessor
>before the  program  reads it.  We have the Software  Development
>System option  on  our ISC UNIX System V.  If we distributed this
>program would the user need to have  the SDS too or does cpp come
>with the base Interactive product?

Cpp is part of the SDS, not part of the base OS.

I was about to suggest that you use m4 instead, but a quick look
shows that it too is part of the SDS.

Depending upon the complexity of the pre-processing that you are 
doing, you might want to grow your own version.

Or (the real answer):

You could distribute gcc-cpp (the c pre-processor that is part of gcc.


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