RE: fixincludes & other OS deps

[Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>]

Hi Brian,

> Is there any way to re-run fixincludes after, say,
> an OS patch or upgrade without bootstrapping a new compiler?

I am glad you happened to write about this.  :-)

I would be more than happy to guide you through the process
of making an installable fixincludes.  It is possible that
it may have to be a slightly different binary from the one
used during the build, but we can probably avoid that, too.

First, propose some interfaces describing how this installable
version would work.  You will likely have to feed it some
output from 'config.guess', tell it where to find headers
[if not /usr/include], and where the result is to be installed.
Much of this is now done via environment variables.  Much too
kludgey for something to be installed.  Once there is general
agreement on that, as I said, I would be happy to guide you
through the implementation.

Regards,
	Bruce