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Re: [3.0 critical] Make fixproto deal with assert.h(bootstrap fails)
- To: rra at stanford dot edu
- Subject: Re: [3.0 critical] Make fixproto deal with assert.h(bootstrap fails)
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 16:13:26 -0700
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <ylae4if9my.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
Russ> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this problem being caused
Russ> by headers from an old version of gcc still hanging around
Russ> and interfering with the correct operation of a newer
Russ> version of gcc?
Yes.
The problem is that some people might want to have two versions of GCC
installed. The bug is apparently that old versions of GCC put
assert.h outside of the gcc-lib heirarchy, and that therefore keep
those versions of GCC around means we have to be tolerant in our new
versions.
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