Re: bootstrap w/o compiler chestnut.

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu dot ac dot uk>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Eric Christopher wrote:

>
  Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng writes:
> > Is there a way to get the fixincludes part of the build proces to
> > behave as if ALL the includes need fixing, so that a full set is
        [...]
>
> Nope. Fixincludes only fixes the include files you have.

OK. 'There's enough work in there as it is, adding the necessaries to
overcoming missing ones must be sufficiently non-trivial to be
"impossible" for now', would seem to be the inference to draw from
this.
>
        [cross compiler route?]
>
> Possibly, but you'll still need the development headers and libraries of
> the target machine. You can't get away from that.

I imagine that there are detailed differences which mean that
GNU/Linux or Hurd "equivalents" won't help.

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:

> If you really want to do this, copy the /include tree.  But again, I
> can't imaging that doing so would be legal.

Agreed, that's why I have avoided this route.
>

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Isn't the SUNWhea package sufficient?  And isn't it shipped with the
> standard distribution, just not installed by default?

OK, well it didn't find thme so I'll have to dig about some more.
>

        Thank you,
        Hugh
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