Re: [PATCH] rename md5.h to md5sum.h as it conflicts with the RSA header

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:35:01AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> The way the BSD's import GCC (OpenBSD doesn't do it this way anymore), is
> to import a trimmed down set of files.

Oh dear.

> [especially libiberty -- which copy does one import and use??]

"None" would be my answer.

I view libiberty as a tool to work around random host weirdness,
and as such it must be distributed with whatever package you're
working on.  Thus I see no point in installing libiberty anywhere.

But that's my opinion, and based on the discussion on these lists
for the past week or three many people don't share it.

> IMHO one should try to not name their header files the same name as a
> system header.

Without moving to ridiculously package-specific header file names,
I don't see how this can be entirely avoided.  Besides, that's what
search paths are for.  If you've messed up the search paths in your
import, then you've done something wrong.

> Seemed like an easy thing to do (rename the header), so I
> submitted the patch.

I'm not real pleased with the notion of setting a precident for
supporting a build procedure other than the one blessed by the
GCC team.



r~