gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (04/14/88)
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... -- {pyramid,pacbell,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com I forsee a day when there are two kinds of C compilers: standard ones and useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran. Are we making progress yet? -- ASC:GUTHERY%slb-test.csnet