cross-compiler build failure, egcs-19990502

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < E10jnF0-0006Qq-00@fountain.nexus.co.uk >you write:
  > >Giving the user greater flexibility sounds like a good idea, but there
  > >is no documentation of --with-headers in NEWS or *.texi .  Not to say
  > >that I would have looked for it anyway.  Why is the default (omitting
  > >with-headers) behavior now to fail instead of to do whatever it used to
  > >do?  Am I the only one who will write stupid email letters to complain
  > >about it?
  > 
  > I agree that the old behaviour was helpful, and it seems to me it would be 
  > desirable to keep it.
There was not a change in behavior.  We are not omitting the headers.

If the behavior has changed, it's not because we explicitly changed anything.

The proper way to provide headers to a cross compiler has always been
--with-headers=<dir>

jeff