Re: inclhacking fixincludes....

[Bruce Korb <korbb at datadesign dot com>]

Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>  I thought I had sent out a message to the list recomending
> folks give this stuff a spin since we'll probably want to flip it
> to the default in the mainline sources once the egcs-1.1 branch is
> made.  But I don't remember seeing that message reflected back from
> the list.

I remember it.  I am certain there were no replies, since I flag every
EGCSmessage that contains the string "fixinc".  Here's a refresher for the
"proactively defensive":

Please try configuring EGCS on your AIX/Solaris/HP-UX box
"--with-fast-fixincludes".  If you are *especially* proactive and
you have one of the boxes that either has a special script or a NULL
fixup (the Makefile will set "FIXINCLUDES" to "Makefile.in"),
then cd to egcs/gcc and alter the assignment to FIXINCLUDES thus:

    FIXINCLUDES = fixinc.sh

then do this:

    rm -f stmp-fixinc
    make stmp-fixinc

and let me (or Jeff) know if the resulting header files (under egcs/gcc/include)

are correct or where they are not.  **THANKS**!!

> The only fixincludes stuff I remember recently was a re-vamping of
> how it worked for solaris.  The idea was to try and avoid changing
> files as much as possible -- the hope being that one could then have
> a chance of gcc still working after installing patches or doing minor
> os upgrades.  I think this happened in early/mid may.  I do think
> there's an aix4 fixincludes bug that we'll have to fix (recent bug
> report).

Yep.  Fixes sometimes do need to be sensitive to the target OS.

>  [[...]] I got my revenge by taking them on all day
> cross country excursions which ended with an amazingly technical
> exposed single track :-)

I hate cutting my hands, but I did enjoy looking over 1,600 feet recentlywhile
my wife screached.  :-)


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