On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:56:44AM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> I've just installed Valhalla, and have the following problem with xrdb:
A possible problem is that the requirement is absolute. Not sure
how this was fixed. Hopefuly by not breaking it.
> I know I could just install the cpp RPM, but that's what dependencies
> are for. Am I missing something?
Yes, indeed. From 'man xrdb':
................
The file specified by filename (or the contents from stan
dard input if - or no filename is given) is optionally
passed through the C preprocessor with the following sym
bols defined, based on the capabilities of the server
being used:
................
(followed by a long list of defined symbols and many other references
to 'cpp' preprocessor).
This is really useful if you are using xrdb and I used it many times
although you may specify '-nocpp' on a command line to xrdb.
I would not mind something more suitable for the job, as using cpp
is obviously a hack, but ....
Michal
