Re: fixincl.c uses non-portable #error and string concatenation

[Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>]

  In message <orso8vwb13.fsf@lua.lbi.dcc.unicamp.br>you write:
  > I was trying to get the C fixincl to run on a poor SPARCstation
  > running StunOS 4.1.3, when using cc as the bootstrap compiler.  The
  > first problem is that cc doesn't support the `#error' directive; fixed
  > in the attached patch.  Ok to install?
Thanks.  I hadn't gotten around to doing any stunos tests yet :-)


  > The second problem is that cc does not support concatenation of
  > adjacent strings, and not only inclhack.def seems to assume this is
  > possible, but also fixincl.tpl uses `"|"' strings to separate
  > filenames.
  > 
  > We could remove the explicit adjacent strings from inclhack.def, but
  > fixincl.tpl would have to be modified somehow in order to generate a
  > single string even for multiple files, instead of multiple adjacent
  > strings.  Bruce, how can we achieve this with AutoGen?  Couldn't we
  > use AutoGen to merge adjacent strings in inclhack.def too?
  > 
Ew.  Yup, we need to fix these.

  > Index: gcc/ChangeLog
  > from  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
  > 
  > 	* fixinc/fixincl.c: Remove #error, it is not portable.
I went ahead and installed this.  No sense in making it wait if there's
issues with your patch to deal with all the issues you raised in this
message.

jeff