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Re: build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2)
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2) |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:01:24 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> Here's the patch:
>
> FYI, at first I thought it was a bug in gcc and reported it,
> but Jakub Jelinek explained that it is a feature, and
> suggested the work-around of using -P.
>
> * configure.in: Use $CPP's -P option when creating Makefile and
> src/Makefile. This is required with at least by gcc 4.4.2, which
> is part of fedora 12. Otherwise, each backslash-newline pair in
> the input would be mistakenly converted to a bare newline, yielding
> invalid Makefiles.
Is this backward compatible with older gcc/cpp's?