Ok. I committed a work-around for this if CPP is set to "cpp".

James

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>This looks ok. One larger issue...1.6.1 obviously doesn't have this so packages
>which are affected by it (this and nfsbug come to mind) need local fixes
>of some sort.
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>James
>
>>
>>Hello.
>>
>>I think this patch does your second suggestion. I tried to build mail/drac
>>with this rpcgen, and succeeded.
>>
>>-----
>>// Hiramatsu Yoshifumi
>>// hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp
>>
>>
>>At Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:00:04 +0200,
>>Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>>> IMHO rpcgen. A minimal fix would be to add another check to find_cpp(),
>>> testing for the default when no ${CPP} is defined (that is /usr/bin/cpp).
>>> A proper fix would check for a leading "/" in ${CPP} and do a ${PATH} walk
>>> if it is missing.
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>
>>diff -buNr rpcgen.orig/rpc_main.c rpcgen/rpc_main.c
>>--- rpcgen.orig/rpc_main.c	2003-07-23 23:38:51.000000000 +0900
>>+++ rpcgen/rpc_main.c	2003-07-23 23:52:46.000000000 +0900
>>@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
>> static int parseargs __P((int, char *[], struct commandline *));
>> static void usage __P((void));
>> static void options_usage __P((void));
>>+static char *padvance(const char **, const char *);
>> 
>> 
>> int
>>@@ -321,20 +322,78 @@
>> find_cpp()
>> {
>> 	struct stat buf;
>>+	const char *path;
>>+	char *cmdname;
>> 
>>-	if (stat(CPP, &buf) < 0) {	/* SVR4 or explicit cpp does not exist */
>>+	if (CPP[0] == '/') {
>>+		if (stat(CPP, &buf) < 0) {
>>+			/* SVR4 or explicit cpp does not exist */
>> 		if (cppDefined) {
>>-			fprintf(stderr, "cannot find C preprocessor: %s\n", CPP);
>>+				fprintf(stderr,
>>+				    "cannot find C preprocessor: %s\n", CPP);
>> 			crash();
>> 		} else {	/* try the other one */
>> 			CPP = SUNOS_CPP;
>>-			if (stat(CPP, &buf) < 0) {	/* can't find any cpp */
>>-				fprintf(stderr, "cannot find any C preprocessor (cpp)\n");
>>+				if (stat(CPP, &buf) < 0) {
>>+					/* can't find any cpp */
>>+					fprintf(stderr,
>>+					    "cannot find any C preprocessor (cpp)\n");
>> 				crash();
>> 			}
>> 		}
>> 	}
>>+	} else {
>>+		path = getenv("PATH");
>>+		while((cmdname = padvance(&path, "cpp")) != NULL) {
>>+			if (stat(cmdname, &buf) < 0) {
>>+				/* not found in this path */
>>+				free(cmdname);
>>+				continue;
>>+			} else {
>>+				/* found */
>>+				CPP = cmdname;
>>+				return;
>>+			}
>>+		}
>>+	}
>>+}
>>+
>>+/* padvance is taken from /bin/sh */
>>+/*
>>+ * Do a path search. The variable path (passed by reference) should be
>>+ * set to the start of the path before the first call; padvance will update
>>+ * this value as it proceeds.  Successive calls to padvance will return
>>+ * the possible path expansions in sequence.
>>+ */
>>+char *
>>+padvance(const char **path, const char *name)
>>+{
>>+	int len;
>>+	const char *start;
>>+	const char *p;
>>+	char *q;
>>+	char *ret;
>>+
>>+	if (*path == NULL)
>>+		return NULL;
>>+	start = *path;
>>+	for (p = start ; *p && *p != ':' ; p++);
>>+	len = p - start + strlen(name) + 2;	/* "2" is for '/' and '\0' */
>>+	ret = q = malloc(len);
>>+	if (p != start) {
>>+		strncpy(q, start, p - start);
>>+		q += p - start;
>>+		*q++ = '/';
>>+	}
>>+	strcpy(q, name);
>>+	if (*p == ':')
>>+		*path = p + 1;
>>+	else
>>+		*path = NULL;
>>+
>>+	return ret;
>> }
>>+
>> /*
>>  * Open input file with given define for C-preprocessor
>>  */
>>
>>
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