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Re: Mainline bootstrap failure in toplev.c

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:56:31PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:55:32AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > But this *is* one of "their own headers".  The bug is that, on most
> > GNU/Linux systems, kernel headers are included by some of the headers in
> > /usr/include.
> 
> This is a _copy_ of those files, provided by the distributor, living in
> /usr/include.  The kernel will not reference them during build.

Then this is bug in the distro; it changes the meaning of
"inline" for any program that inadvertently includes that copied header.
In this case, a fixincludes approach is harmless, as long as kernel
compiles never use the copy.
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