gcc 3.2.3 (Linux)

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Sun Aug 3 16:52:00 GMT 2003


Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Aug  3, 2003, Piotr Gogolewski <docent@panoramix.net.pl> wrote:
>
>> One thing I had to figure out by myself (or I didn't carefully read
>> documantation... ) was:
>> cd /lib && rm cpp && ln -s ../usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/tradcpp0 cpp
>
> Any reason to not use ../usr/bin/cpp instead of the traditional
> preprocessor?  There wasn't a cpp driver back in 2.95, IIRC, so
> /lib/cpp used to be linked to an internal program.

Indeed, and in 3.3 that internal program vanishes entirely, you must
refer to /usr/bin/cpp.

(I would in fact suggest not having /lib/cpp at all, odds are nothing
will break.)

zw



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