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by **Przemek Klosows** » Fri, 01 Apr 1994 06:38:09

Hi,

In slackware 1.1.2 /lib/cpp is set up as a link:

/lib/cpp -> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/*.*.*/cpp

which of course is wrong. It can be cured by:

ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.5.8/cpp /lib/cpp

(substitute your version of gcc for 2.5.8 if yours is different).

The symptoms of this error are that X programs can't read their resource
files, because resource files are processed by /lib/cpp. In particular,
'xdm' can't read /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources.

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by **Robert W. Brew** » Sat, 02 Apr 1994 02:48:58

>Hi,
>In slackware 1.1.2 /lib/cpp is set up as a link:
>/lib/cpp -> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/*.*.*/cpp
>which of course is wrong. It can be cured by:
>ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.5.8/cpp /lib/cpp
>(substitute your version of gcc for 2.5.8 if yours is different).
>The symptoms of this error are that X programs can't read their resource
>files, because resource files are processed by /lib/cpp. In particular,
>'xdm' can't read /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources.

Here's a little hack I did to nip this problem. It seems to work
pretty well, although obviously it uses quite a bit more CPU for the
convenience of not touching this file again when I upgrade.

If anyone has some better ones, I'd love to see them! :)

---------------
#!/bin/bash
verstring=`/usr/bin/gcc -v 2>&1`
for version in $verstring # set version to last word of gcc's string
do
:
done
exec /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/$version/cpp $*
---------------

-Rob
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/lib/cpp configuration bug affecting XDM on Slackware 1.1.2 (plus fix)

/lib/cpp configuration bug affecting XDM on Slackware 1.1.2 (plus fix)

/lib/cpp configuration bug affecting XDM on Slackware 1.1.2 (plus fix)