Re: build from source fails on fedora-12 (with gcc 4.4.2)

[Chong Yidong]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's the patch:
>
> FYI, at first I thought it was a bug in gcc and reported it,
> but Jakub Jelinek explained that it is a feature, and
> suggested the work-around of using -P.
>
> * configure.in: Use $CPP's -P option when creating Makefile and
> src/Makefile.  This is required with at least by gcc 4.4.2, which
> is part of fedora 12.  Otherwise, each backslash-newline pair in
> the input would be mistakenly converted to a bare newline, yielding
> invalid Makefiles.

Is this backward compatible with older gcc/cpp's?