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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Andrew ToolKit "fix" uses horrid cpp kludge
Message-ID: <4429@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 14 Apr 88 11:47:13 GMT
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Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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jhm+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Jim Morris) wrote:
> The DESDTIR is defined kind of weird.  It's in the make files as
> 	-DDESTDIR=\"$(DESTDIR)
> This needs to be terminated by a " whenever it's used but allows and path name
> after the macro.  In code, it appears as
> 	TemplateDir = DESTDIR/lib/templates"
> and so on.

Kind of wierd is an understatement.  This does not work in any ANSI C
compiler, and I can see it breaking many non-ANSI compilers too.
Unterminated string tokens are no fun for any cpp that tokenizes.  I've
had to fix a bunch of programs that tried this trickery; please don't
create another one.

Has anyone tried compiling X11R2 with gcc?  That should determine 
what kinds of ANSI C problems it has...
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  useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran.  Are we making progress yet?
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