Bug 1014210

Summary: Fix xrdb to default to -nocpp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Component: xorg-x11-server-utilsAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.0CC: ajax, mdomonko, vbenes
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-4.el7 Doc Type: Release Note
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The xrdb utility manages the X server resource database. Traditionally, the utility invokes the C preprocessor, which is provided by the cpp package, to expand resource files before further operations. However, this feature is disabled by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 because in most cases, the C preprocessor is not needed. To preserve previous behavior, install cpp and execute xrbd with the "-cpp" option.
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 09:56:00 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Adam Jackson 2013-10-01 14:17:29 UTC 
Invoking cpp at all is a misfeature.  We'd like not to ship mcpp, but we also don't want to force gcc's cpp to be installed since it's quite large.  If we change xrdb to default to -nocpp we can remove the dependency on cpp.
Comment 9 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:56:00 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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