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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:35:54PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
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> On 06/11/13 15:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > 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?
> 
> Looking at the manual page, it looks like that the only reason is to
> support #include's?  I think it would be better to just fix it than
> importing a new (old) preprocessor...

Diane has proposed a patch to go that way:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin%2F178463&cat=

If one wants to review

Bapt
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