[3.0 critical] Make fixproto deal with assert.h(bootstrap fails)

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sat May 12 16:13:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "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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