[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
> On jeu., 2011-11-17 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Well, hopefully one would only use the default behavior when loading
>> the user's personal configuration (and maybe system-wide defaults),
>> where cpp is part of the expected interface.
> Well, it seems that -nocpp was used since a long time, so ?expected
> interface? doesn't really stand here.
Well, for Xfce, yes, but I think every other desktop environment uses the
defaults. At least, I was switching from GNOME and can confirm that it
definitely uses the preprocessor when parsing the user's .Xresources,
since that's what triggered the original bug, and I know it also worked
with WindowMaker and OpenSTEP. I haven't tested KDE. Also, it's the
default behavior if you're not using a desktop environment (which
admittedly is getting rare).
I don't *think* you're likely to run into any backward compatibility
problems by removing -nocpp from Xfce. I can't think of an otherwise
valid .Xresources file that would then break.
--
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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