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Re: merge-with-binutils documentation is wrong/incomplete


On Mar 20, 2001, Markus Werle <markus@lufmech.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> And - of course - the second option is wrong, too.
> No one ever tested this before. I am really fed up with this bullshit.
> Of course one has to link the stuff in subdirectories like
> ./binutils-2.10.1/include/*
> to the gcc tree, but files differ/conflict, files are already there.

You shouldn't have to.  But the preprocessor in development snapshots
and in gcc 2.96 that ships with Red Hat Linux 7 does pathname
canonicalization, which breaks the way these includes used to work.
Indeed, you need to create links in the include tree too, these days :-(

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