traditional (K&R-style) C preprocessor
Project homepage: https://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/tradcpp/
Description
tradcpp is a K&R-style ("traditional") C preprocessor. It was written to
support historical uses of the C preprocessor for preprocessing things that
aren't C, as the preprocessors that ship with C compilers are increasingly
unsuitable for this task and/or don't provide a traditional mode at all.
In particular, tradcpp preserves whitespace as much as possible, so it can be
used in contexts where whitespace is significant and/or rearranging whitespace
causes things to break, such as makefiles. Preprocessing makefiles with cpp is
a fairly common property of sufficiently old legacy build systems, including
old versions of Emacs and anything that uses imake.
Package information
- Ports path
- devel/tradcpp
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
- Categories
- devel
- Available flavors
- None listed
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
None listed.
Used by (2 dependency relationships)
Includes library, runtime, build and test dependencies.