[PATCH] locale: fix hard-coded reference to gcc -E

Jérémy Rosen jeremy.rosen@smile.fr
Mon Sep 5 06:55:00 GMT 2016


Any news ?


On 24/08/2016 09:57, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
> When new version of compilers are published, they may not be compatible with
> older versions of software. This is particularly common when software is built
> with -Werror.
>
> Autotools provides a way for a user to specify the name of his compiler using a
> set of variables ($CC $CXX $CPP etc.). Those variables are used correctly when
> compiling glibc but the script used to generate transliterations in the locale/
> subdirectory directly calls the gcc binary to get the output of the
> preprocessor instead of using the $CPP variable provided by the build
> environment.
>
> This patch replaces the hard-coded reference to the gcc binary with the proper
> environment variable, thus allowing a user to override it.
>
>
> ---
>   locale/gen-translit.pl | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/locale/gen-translit.pl b/locale/gen-translit.pl
> index 30d3f2f..7b287fa 100644
> --- a/locale/gen-translit.pl
> +++ b/locale/gen-translit.pl
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> -open F, "cat C-translit.h.in | gcc -E - |" || die "Cannot preprocess input file";
> +open F, 'cat C-translit.h.in | ${CPP:-gcc -E} - |' || die "Cannot preprocess input file";
>   
>   
>   sub cstrlen {



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