On 07/14/2012 10:12 AM, Nix wrote:
> On 14 Jul 2012, David C. Rankin verbalised:
>> It was either Arch or glibc 2.16 upstream, and it was the missing link in the
>> search locations Nix provided. To solve the issue, I simply created a symlink
>> /lib/cpp->/usr/bin/cpp and tdebase built fine.
>>
>> <rant>
>>   Just for the next two months, I wish upstream would
>>   QUIT DORKING WITH THE DAMN PACKAGES!!!
>> </rant>
> 
> Actually nothing upstream installs /lib/cpp anymore. It's supposed to be
> a traditional C preprocessor (non-token-based), unused by GCC for many
> years since -traditional mode was dropped, but kept on for the sake of
> other programs that used the C preprocessor to preprocess non-C code. It
> was believed that its last users were imake and the Xresources parser:
> it looks like we've found another one, in glibc no less.
> 
> I'm fairly sure a patch to glibc changing the path to cpp used by rpcgen
> would be accepted (even though glibc's rpcgen is semi-deprecated), and
> shall write one shortly. (But of course this won't show up until glibc
> 2.17.)
> 

Allan McRae, one of the primary Arch developers is talking with the upstream
folks about the issue. That tells me Arch will get a patch that resolves it
within a day or two.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.