Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base?

Diane Bruce db at db.net
Tue Jun 11 22:28:37 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. Holland from
> NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional (K&R-style) C macro
> preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it so that imake can work properly
> without gcc.
> 
> I discovered that some part of the base system still needs a traditional
> preprocessor, like (calendar), what I propose it to import tradcpp into the base
> system (not the version in port right now but what will become version 0.2).
> 
> It mostly behave like gcpp, and I'm able to properly use calendar along with
> tradcpp with this small patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/tradcpp.diff
> 
> Any objections against me importing it?
> 
> regards,
> Bapt

I rewrote calendar already to not use cpp at all. There is an open PR on it.

- Diane


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