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Re: improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:14:38 +0200
Subject: Re: improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target
References: <20101008101054.GA5971@cardhu.act-europe.fr> <20101011101952.GA15137@cardhu.act-europe.fr> <87wrpo3l10.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

> At least on modern Linux I don't think I ever saw any useful fix
> out of fixincl. What it usually does is to "fix" a lot of header files
> which are not used, but the distribution happened to put into
> /usr/include. And typically it's just fixes for obscure things
> that are only a problem at -pedantic or so.

People regularly patch fixincl, it's still useful on non-Linux systems and 
more generally on systems where you cannot afford to upgrade frequently.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

Follow-Ups:
- Re: improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target
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References:
- improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target
  - From: Olivier Hainque
- Re: improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target
  - From: Olivier Hainque
- Re: improve install-no-fixedincludes Makefile target
  - From: Andi Kleen

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