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bootstrap w/o compiler chestnut.
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:32:05 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: bootstrap w/o compiler chestnut.
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0303261729090.1492@neelix>
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng writes:
>
> Is there a way to get the fixincludes part of the build proces to
> behave as if ALL the includes need fixing, so that a full set is
> created for the "destination" compiler? (I think this would have
> the advantage that the Free compiler could be built with a non-free
> compiler, and the result would be distributable. [This may be a
> spurious point, I find these issues tend to be more subtle than I
> expect!])
This would require us to copy every header file from the machine with
the dev system installed to the new machine. This would probably be a
breach of the copyright in the header files.
If you really want to do this, copy the /include tree. But again, I
can't imaging that doing so would be legal.
The reason they don't include the header files in the standard
distribution is that they want you to buy their development software.
Andrew.