From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 08:30:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: According to Neil Booth , versions of the X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.99~38 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b22660fa4c06de5c14db560875d1dceec166c7b;p=emacs.git According to Neil Booth , versions of the preprocessor after Feb 1 2001 don't expand ".." into ". .". --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index dbe013222fe..a40693c6695 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -4,15 +4,18 @@ in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one -of the GCC snapshots around Oct 2000 and later, or from a released -version of GCC newer than 2.95.2. The preprocessor in those versions -expands ".." into ". .", which breaks relative file names that -reference the parent directory. +of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released +version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those +dates. The preprocessor in those versions expands ".." into ". .", +which breaks relative file names that reference the parent directory. The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the `-traditional' option. (The `configure' script should do that automatically with Emacs 21 and later.) +Versions of the GNU preprocessor after Feb 1 2001 reportedly don't +have this problem, so upgrading should solve this. + Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefile's.