On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > 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. got ya ... so fixinclude is useful (needed) to generate proper headers for gcc to build against, but not useful to install those fixed headers (from the distribution point of view) thanks -mike
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