RE: /lib/cpp

2004-09-07 Thread Roland Stigge
uired? I guess, not. Maybe /lib/cpp is used as a last resort, and ./configure couldn't find cpp elsewhere on your system. I wonder why it actually tried to use it when it didn't exist. In a minimal Debian system, dia builds fine without /lib/

RE: /lib/cpp

2004-09-07 Thread Frank Salter
development of dia Subject: Re: /lib/cpp On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:01, Roland Stigge wrote: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBESSENTIALSHAREDLIBRARIESANDK ERN > > says: > > "If a C preprocessor is installed, /lib/cpp must be a reference to it, >

Re: /lib/cpp

2004-09-07 Thread Roland Stigge
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:01, Roland Stigge wrote: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBESSENTIALSHAREDLIBRARIESANDKERN > > says: > > "If a C preprocessor is installed, /lib/cpp must be a reference to it, > for historical reasons. [...]" Using it would b

Re: /lib/cpp

2004-09-07 Thread Roland Stigge
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 13:26, Frank Salter wrote: > I am using Slackware 10 and gcc 3.4.1. When compiling dia-0.94 from source > it required /lib/cpp as the C pre-processor. A symbolic link to > /usr/local/bin/cpp resolved the difficulty! > However /lib and /usr/local/bin are located

/lib/cpp

2004-09-07 Thread Frank Salter
I am using Slackware 10 and gcc 3.4.1. When compiling dia-0.94 from source it required /lib/cpp as the C pre-processor. A symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/cpp resolved the difficulty! However /lib and /usr/local/bin are located on different drives, and I try to avoid linking across drives as it