Re: build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2)

[Chong Yidong]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I verified that /usr/lib/cpp on Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 6.1 both support -P.
> I think it's been in every cpp since the beginning.

OK, I've checked in your patch.  Thanks.