Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.0.0-2
Severity: important
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SUMMARY:
characters in a .Xdefaults file, when processed by cpp, ARE NOT
SYNTACTIC TOKENS, hence the NEED for the -traditional switch
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i have cpp's macros in my .Xdefaults file, lots of those macros are now
broken, as cpp is no more invoked with the -traditional switch
in particular, concatenation breaks horribly when one try to build XLFD
font descriptions, as the "-" characters are no more mere characters,
but were implicitly promoted to the status of syntactic tokens, so that
it's very difficult, at least to me, to get proper concatenation as in
the following example
% cpp
#define bbb aaa ## 12
#define ccc aaa ## -12
bbb
ccc
# 1 "<stdin>"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command line>"
# 1 "<stdin>"
aaa12
<stdin>:4:1: error: pasting "aaa" and "-" does not give a valid
preprocessing token
aaa -12
%
ciao
gb
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdmx1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-2 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.4.1-0.4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.0-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-2 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.0-2 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.0-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.0-3 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.0.10 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
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