14 Jul
2012
14 Jul
'12
6:58 p.m.
On 07/14/2012 10:12 AM, Nix wrote:
On 14 Jul 2012, David C. Rankin verbalised:
Allan McRae, one of the primary Arch developers is talking with the upstream
folks about the issue. That tells me Arch will get a patch that resolves it
within a day or two.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
It was either Arch or glibc 2.16 upstream, and it
was the missing link in the
search locations Nix provided. To solve the issue, I simply created a symlink
/lib/cpp->/usr/bin/cpp and tdebase built fine.
<rant>
Just for the next two months, I wish upstream would
QUIT DORKING WITH THE DAMN PACKAGES!!!
</rant>
Actually nothing upstream installs /lib/cpp anymore. It's supposed to be
a traditional C preprocessor (non-token-based), unused by GCC for many
years since -traditional mode was dropped, but kept on for the sake of
other programs that used the C preprocessor to preprocess non-C code. It
was believed that its last users were imake and the Xresources parser:
it looks like we've found another one, in glibc no less.
I'm fairly sure a patch to glibc changing the path to cpp used by rpcgen
would be accepted (even though glibc's rpcgen is semi-deprecated), and
shall write one shortly. (But of course this won't show up until glibc
2.17.)