From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:01:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws2mrw6z.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdi61u3d.fsf@meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:51:18 +0200")
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
> Here's the patch:
>
> FYI, at first I thought it was a bug in gcc and reported it,
> but Jakub Jelinek explained that it is a feature, and
> suggested the work-around of using -P.
>
> * configure.in: Use $CPP's -P option when creating Makefile and
> src/Makefile. This is required with at least by gcc 4.4.2, which
> is part of fedora 12. Otherwise, each backslash-newline pair in
> the input would be mistakenly converted to a bare newline, yielding
> invalid Makefiles.
Is this backward compatible with older gcc/cpp's?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 6:51 build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2) Jim Meyering
2009-10-23 15:01 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-10-23 15:21 ` Jim Meyering
2009-10-23 16:19 ` Chong Yidong
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