Migrating away from using cpp for startx and xinitrc in xinit

[Thomas Klausner]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:04:05PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 23:39:06 -0800 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
> <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> said:
> 
> > It seems that using cpp for startx and xinitrc in the xinit port is coming
> > back to bite us now as different C preprocessors don't exactly process non-C
> > files in ways that we might want.
> > 
> > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46811#comment:4
> > 
> > Does anyone have any strong opinions about this state of affairs and how we
> > should address it?  If not, I'll mull it over for a while and try to figure
> > something out.
> 
> we had this problem long ago and solved it by shipping our own cpp:
> 
> http://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/tree/src/bin/edje/epp
> 
> it's not actually "ours" - it's an ancient stand-alone gpl stand-alone cpp that
> we KNOW works and outputs exactly what we expect/want. you could do the same.

There's also another similar project, tradcpp by dholland at NetBSD.org,
distfile at
http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dholland/tradcpp-0.4.tar.gz
 Thomas