Bug 174302

Summary: xrdb requires cpp when used by KDE kcmshell fonts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jon Burgess <jburgess777>
Component: xorg-x11-server-utilsAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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Description Jon Burgess 2005-11-27 16:18:34 UTC
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Description of problem:
I ran the KDE kcontrol and updated my font settings. An error appeared on the console suggesting the /usr/bin/cpp was not found.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-utils-0.99.2-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. xrdb

or,
1. kcmshell fonts
2. Update some font setting
3. OK & exit

  

Actual Results:  No error on console

Expected Results:  sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory

Additional info:

Default install of FC5test1 + kde, plus rawhide updates.

Nots sure if this is really an x11 issue since xrdb already supports usage without cpp via -nocpp. Maybe this needs to be bounced to kdebase to get it to either add the dependency on cpp or use -nocpp if it isn't required.

What do you think is the best solution?

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2005-11-29 06:07:56 UTC
Using -nocpp will only work on resource files that do not contain preprocessor
markup.  Using it on all files would break things.  Since xrdb invokes cpp
directly, the only proper fix is for it to have a hard dependency on cpp
being installed.

I've just updated xorg-x11-server-utils-0.99.2-6 in rawhide with a dependency
on the "cpp" package.  That should fix the problem.