Re: Eliminating the dependency on the old C header files

["U.Mutlu" <um at mutluit dot com>]

Jonathan Wakely wrote on 06/25/2018 11:56 PM:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 at 22:39, U.Mutlu <um@mutluit.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it seems the latest gcc (v9 svn) unfortunately still needs
> > the C headers of the (old) system compiler, for example stdio.h .
>
> Those headers are not part of GCC, they come from the C library.
>
> > Is it possible to let the build process create also new C headers,
>
> No, because GCC doesn't create those headers, they're not part of GCC.

Ok, got it. So, I could build libc myself and install into
a different dir and give those new dirs (include, lib) to
the gcc build script.
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Builds
Yes, now it makes sense. Thx.

> > so that no dependency anymore exists to the old C header files?
> >
> > What other alternatives are there?
> > What minimal/essential C headers would one need to provide
> > instead of the full /usr/include dir?
> >
> > --
> > Thx