On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to build dash[1] with cgcc and the compilation failed: > > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git > $ cd dash/ > $ ./autogen > $ CC=cgcc ./configure && make > > This was because an auto-generated file was not created. > > dash preprocesses a file using gcc[2, line 50] like that: > > builtins.def: builtins.def.in $(top_builddir)/config.h > $(COMPILE) -E -x c -o $@ $< > > however preprocessing files which does not have a .c extension seems to > be unsupported with cgcc. ... > The issue could be easily fixed in dash by using something like: > > $ cgcc -DHAVE_SOMETHING -E - < test.c.in > test.c > > or by calling $(CPP) directly instead of $(COMPILER), however other > projects may run into similar issues so maybe fixing cgcc to look > a little more like gcc when -E is passed would be better. I agree, better teach cgcc about '-x c'. Best regards, -- Luc Van Oostenryck
