----Original Message---- >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 22 September 2005 11:21
> ----Original Message---- >> From: Corinna Vinschen >> Sent: 22 September 2005 11:07 > >> On Sep 22 09:23, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: >>> Seems that xrdb uses cpp when processing .Xdefaults, but cpp is only >>> included in gcc package. So xorg should depend on gcc but why not make >>> cpp a separate package since gcc is a very large package ? > No it isn't really, because the real question is "Could cpp be packaged > separately from gcc", regardless of whether for an X app that needs it or > otherwise, and the answer is "No, it can't be, because the preprocessor is > built into the compiler these days, not a standalone like it used to be; > the seeming standalone cpp.exe is just a driver that invokes cc1.exe with > the -E flag". Actually, that's too strong a statement. It _could_ be possible to make a package containing only cpp.exe and cc1.exe. But it wouldn't save you all that much over the gcc-core package: a couple of extra copies of the driver, a few small utils like [un]protoize and gcov, a couple of hundred kB of include headers and static libs, and the basic docs/info files; it would probably still need to be supplied with the language catalogs. OTOH, the dependency for xrdb should probably be only on gcc-core, not any of the remaining packages. That's probably the easiest compromise. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/