Hi, I've been working on building a few crosscompilers lately, and since 4.1.2 release I've now started getting errors with fixinclude target (probably unrelated), so I've started looking up the need for this, and I've started wondering if it is still needed on modern systems. In Gentoo, for instance, the header "fixed" by fixinclude -- that also changes around some stuff in comments, which is quite silly by its own -- are already being removed, because leaving them there can create quite a bit of problems, as the headers would be left there even if the libraries the original came from are removed or upgraded. For what I can see, most of the headers are currently changed to replace the macro "linux" into "__linux__" (actually it seems just to run a blind sed over the files, as also comments left there for emacs like /* -*- linux-c -*- */ are changed), as well as "unix" into "__unix__" and so on. For what I can see, fixinclude would make sense if you were to have gcc installed in a different prefix than your system packages (but most Linux distributions use /usr for both core system and misc packages) and even then mostly for very old systems, or a few proprietary system. Am I mistaken on this? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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