Mainline bootstrap failure in toplev.c

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:03:03AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:56:31PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:55:32AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > > But this *is* one of "their own headers".  The bug is that, on most
> > > GNU/Linux systems, kernel headers are included by some of the headers in
> > > /usr/include.
> > 
> > This is a _copy_ of those files, provided by the distributor, living in
> > /usr/include.  The kernel will not reference them during build.
> 
> Then this is bug in the distro; it changes the meaning of
> "inline" for any program that inadvertently includes that copied header.
> In this case, a fixincludes approach is harmless, as long as kernel
> compiles never use the copy.

Right.  Debian has fixed this some time ago; I imagine most other Linux
distributions have also.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz