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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes |
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> to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions. Now a binary |
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> distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem. |
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> Gentoo on the other hand will work as intended by GCC only if the user |
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> re-emerges GCC after every time a package is emerged that installs headers. |
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> Obviously, no user does that. |
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> |
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> So the question is simple; does Gentoo deal with this problem in any way? |
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As far as I understand it, the header fixes are only there to fix |
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things that cause the compilation of GCC itself to fail, so I don't |
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think they are important other than when you are compiling GCC. |
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I have nothing insightful to add other than links to some |
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documentation that may be helpful, which you've probably already read. |
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:) |
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gcc-4.4.4.tar.bz2:/gcc-4.4.4/fixincludes/README |
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http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.4/gcc/Fixed-Headers.html |
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http://autogen.SourceForge.net/fixinc.html |
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