A patch for Makefile.in

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 06:36:21PM +0200, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   In message < k2vhoj742t.fsf@zero.aec.at >you write:
>   > > I'm open to thoughts & comments from the list on this topic.
>   > 
>   > I'm not sure why you want this.
> Because when people call cpp directly it bypasses the specs handling
> in the compiler, which is the preferred way to handle predefines and
> such.
> 
> If folks had been calling cpp indirectly via gcc, when we would not
> have had the -Di386 fiasco for example.


But see the rest of my message. Lots of programs use cpp for non-C
text files, and they don't need the sophisticated specs file handling.
Most Unix systems supply a cpp somewhere in the standard $PATH, it just
does not work on gcc based systems. 


-Andi