Re: Patch for limits.h and RTEMS

[Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990329163940.7423.qmail@comton.airs.com>you write:
  > gcc can build two different versions of limits.h.  If there is a
  > system limits.h, it builds a limits.h which includes the system one
  > and then ensures that certain values are set correctly.
  > 
  > gcc checks whether there is a system limits.h by looking in a specific
  > directory, normally /usr/include.  When building a cross compiler, it
  > looks in $(tooldir)/sys-include; the user is expected to preinstall
  > the appropriate header files in that directory.
  > 
  > This works fine, except for a couple of environments which are
  > normally build in conjunction with gcc.  For these environments,
  > limits.h does exist, but it is not yet installed in
  > $(tooldir)/sys-include; it lives in a directory parallel to the gcc
  > source directory.
  > 
  > The two environments I know of which have this problem are cygwin and
  > RTEMS.  For cygwin, I fixed the problem over a year ago:
  > 
  > Wed Jan 28 20:04:43 1998  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
  > 
  > 	* i386/t-cygwin32 (LIMITS_H_TEST, LIBGCC2_INCLUDES): Define.
  > 
  > Here is the appropriate patch for RTEMS.  Since gcc includes some
  > RTEMS configuration information, it should include this as well.
  > 
  > Ian
  > 
  > 
  > Mon Mar 29 11:37:49 1999  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@zembu.com>
  > 
  > 	* t-rtems (LIMITS_H_TEST, LIBGCC2_INCLUDES): Define.
Ironic -- Joel and I were just discussing this recently.  I suggested we
copy whatever cygwin was doing :-) :-)

Thanks, I've installed this patch.

Joel -- can you give it a spin and see if it works for you?

jeff