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