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Re: Header file installation
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Header file installation
- From: Levente Farkas <lfarkas at mindmaker dot hu>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:46:38 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Mindmaker Ltd.
- References: <20001030210507S.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-To: lfarkas at mindmaker dot hu
Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> Benjamin, Phil Edwards, and I have talked about the G++ header file
> situation, and we're thinking we'd like to have the headers installed
> in the gcc-lib/arch/version/include directory, instead of in
> include/g++-3. (By the way, that also goes along with a request from
> some BSD folks that I talked to at ALS2000.)
>
> The advantages are that it will make `gcc -V' more likely to do
> something sensible, and that the `g++-3' bit is very confusing to
> users, judging by how often questiosn regarding that come up on the V3
> mailing list.
>
> Does anyone have objections to this change?
I don't realy like when header files are not under /usr/include/.
I usualy do a grep -r xxx /usr/include (eg. SO_BSDCOMPAT is not documented
anywhere so just a header file search is useful).
-- Levente
"The only thing worse than not knowing the truth is
ruining the bliss of ignorance."