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X11 and CC?X11 and CC?Posted Sep 23, 2008 6:14 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds The X Window System runs the C preprocessor and compiler on startup, in order to build its keyboard mappings. Sounds very strange. Frankly I did not know it does this. Mapping keyboard presses to X's internal codes isn't exactly time-critical, so why doesn't it simply use a mapping table (or some kind of bytecode if a simple table is not powerful enough) loaded from a binary file? Using CC for this sounds like something done just for the hack value...
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X11 and CC? Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:34 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's not compiling anything: it's passing the keysym files through the C
preprocessor before xkbcomping them. Everyone hates this (it's imake only not quite as ugly). I'm not sure if the rip-out-xkbcomp-at-every-X-start job is done yet, but it's definitely on people's lists
X11 and CC? Posted Sep 23, 2008 17:12 UTC (Tue) by s0f4r (guest, #52284) [Link]
there is a patch and it'll likely be in git soon, we sent it to Keith P. :)
X11 and CC? Posted Sep 23, 2008 20:10 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
YAY! Another ugly crock bites the dust...
(of course we still need /lib/cpp for the occasional non-X program that
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