Re: header search path change with 2003-03-02 commit

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com> writes:

>> >  It's normally "$(libsubdir)/include" minus the
>> > last eight characters ("/include").  There shouldn't be more than the
>> > one include directory there normally.
>> 
>> Sure, but I think you forgot the ../ stuff.
>
> Crap, you're right of course.  I really vehemently dislike the way we
> use libsubdir to find the relocated prefix.  We have better mechanisms
> now but every time I try to change a quirk in this code, someone pops
> up who relied on that quirk.  It's worse than C extensions :)

I don't like it either.  When you say we have better mechanisms, do
you mean we could theoretically do without it?

zw