Re: fixinc: PATCH: non-GNU make broken [in] `make bootstrap'

[Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>]

> I'd like to hear from the fixinc people about this one,
> as they may wish to change fixinc/Makefile.in instead.

The "fixinc people" consist of a cadre of one.  :-)
He can only be relied upon to read email addressed to him
or containing the six letters, "fixinc" in the subject.

Anyway, changing fixinc/Makefile.in and fixinc/mkfixinc.sh
is not the preferred choice:

> Permission to apply to both paths?
> 
> BTW, I know that someone could point out that gcc/fixinc/mkfixinc.sh
> and gcc/fixinc/Makefile.in should directly use HOST_CC, etc
> everywhere.  However, that is a far bigger change for a subsystem that
> only knows little of internal gcc Makefile quirks.
> 
> 2001-09-27  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
> 
>   * Makefile.in (STAGE2_FLAGS_TO_PASS): Propagate HOST_CC.
>   (fixinc.sh): Map CC, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to HOST_* versions for
>   later recursive make invocation.

fixinc knows little about GCC's make structure and it has big plans
for one day incorporating the fix-headers logic and becoming
installable.  The reason for this is that some people find it
inconvenient to rebuild all of GCC when all that is really
needed is the re-editing of a few changed headers.  When this
happens, it will need to be built with the next stage CC.
OTOH, we may all be old and grey before this happens.