Re: Unable to compile .defs files

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Please fix your client so that it does not wrap lines.

  When I try to build trans folder alone with the command "CC=gcc-3.3
  make", I'm getting the following error.

How did you configure everything?  You havn't told us this, this is
important information.  You also haven't told us if you are doing a
cross-compile or a native-compile, I'm assuming you are doing a native
one since you are using gcc istead of ix86-pc-gnu-gcc.

   gcc-3.3 -E -I.  -I..  -I../include -I../include
   -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_IO_MTSAFE_IO -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  
    -DSERVERPREFIX=S_ ../hurd/fsys.defs -o fsys.sdefsi

Somehow something got screwed up and the `-x c' flag isn't being
passed.

   %.sdefsi: %.defs
           $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) $(MIGSFLAGS) $($*-MIGSFLAGS) -DSERVERPREFIX=S_ $< 
-o $@

   Here the CPP is getting substituted with gcc-3.3. This should be
   substituted with mig I suppose. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You're wrong, the rule is correct.