cpp doesn't define symbol i386

[Ronald.Wahl@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de]

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Jim Wilson wrote:

> 	As far as I can tell i386 should still be defined.  Can you investigate
> 	why it's not being defined?
> 
> i386 is defined only if you use `gcc -E'.  This person is complaining that
> it is not defined if you use `cpp'.  I think the answer here is to tell people
> that they can't rely on using `cpp' for preprocessing stuff that isn't C code,
> but if they really want to use it, then they should use `gcc -E' (or maybe
> even `gcc -E -traditional') instead of just `cpp'.

Hmm, now I replaced /lib/cpp by a script which calls "gcc -E $*". After a
bit of thinking I must say that this is a cleaner solution than linking to
the real cpp. Now I do not need to update this link anymore after
upgrading gcc. 

ron

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