Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. > > > > Yes, fixincludes is still needed on modern systems. > > any chance of an explanation ? "yes" doesnt really satisfy the curious ;) An easy recent example is that gcc's handling of "extern inline" changed in -std=c99 mode, and fixincludes changes glibc's uses of "extern inline" accordingly. Ian
