On Jan 21,  2:12pm, collver1@comcast.net (Ben Collver) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: '//' for comments in C code? (archivers/unace)

| On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:48:15PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > Sed seems simpler:
| > 
| > 
| > .c.o:
| > 	@(echo ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c $< && \
| > 	PID=$$$$ && \
| > 	sed -e 's,//.*$$,,' < $< > tmp$${PID}.c && \
| > 	${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c tmp$${PID}.c && \
| > 	mv tmp$${PID}.o $@ && \
| > 	rm -f tmp$${PID}.c)
| > 
| > I would have used /dev/stdin, but some cc's check that the file ends in .c
| 
| Would this cause the lynx compile to fail?
| 
| >From /usr/pkgsrc/www/lynx/work/lynx-2-8-4/src/LYMain.c:
| 
|     printf(gettext(
|           "See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.\n\n"
|           ));
| 
| If I understand it right, sed would change this to
| 
|     printf(gettext(
|           "See http:
|           ));

Yup, you need some smarted pre-processing so that it understands quoting.

christos