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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.223542.24085@convex.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 22:35:42 GMT
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Sender: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
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From the keyboard of ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo):
:Hmm, so why did Tom say that he could no longer use cpp for his perl
:scripts ?  Surely all he's got to do then is to get perl -P to call cpp -pcc ?
:Tom ?

Yes, cpp -pcc will work for me.    I edit config.sh to fix it.

:Hmm..  Thinking about it, perl really does need to be told about cpp flags
:for -P, doesn't it.  Should Configure try -traditional and/or -pcc and
:use them if accepted ?  Not that I've ever used -P, but if I ever do ...

I don't think that cpp flags are sufficiently standardized for perl to
infer them without help.  If not a line in Configure, maybe in the README.

--tom
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 Tom Christiansen                tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist