Re: (ITS#8056) [PATCH] libdb version is not detected correctly when using gcc5

[hyc@symas.com]

jsynacek@redhat.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Jan Synacek
> Version: 2.4.40
> OS: GNU/Linux
> URL: https://jsynacek.fedorapeople.org/openldap/jsynacek-20150211-fix-libdb-detection-with-gcc-5.patch
> Submission from: (NULL) (94.112.188.81)
>
>
> The old cpp version generated:
> __db_version 5
>
> Configure then correctly picked up the version, since it greps for
> "__db_version".
>
> The new output:
> __db_version
>              5
>
> Grepping no longer works and configure fails.
>
> Running cpp with -P (inhibit linemarkers generation) fixes this when using gcc
> 5.
> Behavior with older versions of gcc is not changed.

Your patch is simple enough but frankly this sounds like a bug in gcc 
5's cpp. It shouldn't be inserting gratuitous whitespace in the middle 
of lines, or inserting line breaks arbitrarily.

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