RE: Problem compiling glibc with gcc 2.95.3

[David Korn]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: 20 March 2001 15:31

>> 1) gcc-2.95.3+ could notice when it was being asked for the internal
>> subprogram 'cpp' and return the result as if it had been 
>asked for 'cpp0'.
>> This is a bit of a nasty hack, as it would fail if someone asked for 
>> the path to cpp and then stripped off the path and appended 
>the filename
>> themselves.
>
>Which, incidentally, is exactly what glibc does:
>rpcgen-cmd = $(built-program-cmd) -Y `$(CC) -print-file-name=cpp | \
>                                      sed 's|/cpp$$||'`

  Ah, thanks for the explanation; sed scripts are pretty impenetrable
to me.

     DaveK
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