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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>, robertlipe at usa dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:22:01 -0600
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20020606045720.GA13668@nevyn.them.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> Conveniently, I believe Geoff contributed the basis of code to run
> fixincludes at install rather than build time last week... Packaging it
> up appropriately should just be the matter of an hour or two.
Yup. What's even better is the ability to run fixincludes *after* installation
of the compiler. Cygnus/Red Hat has had hacks to do this for a long time
as it didn't make any sense (and was a legal minefield) to distribute
fixed header files as part of our releases.
For example, let's say you built & installed GCC. Then you installed some
patch from your vendor which twiddled the include files -- you want to
get those newly twiddled include files re-scanned and fixed.
This means that fixincludes would actually be part of the installed set of
programs so that it could be run later. Or re-run if the install directory
is copied from one system to another.
jeff