fixinc required for new FreeBSD 4.x bootstrap failures

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Mon Sep 13 21:16:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Bruce Korb wrote:
> In the TOT for stdlib.h, I think I'd clarify the alternating nature
> of these by using "#elif" instead of "#endif\n#if", that way
> the last clause becomes "#else" instead of another obscuring test.

I believe David is already working to adjust the FreeBSD system headers.

> Anyway, for fixinc, I think the simpliest fix is to constrain to
> FreeBSD, grep for the stdlib.h header file version and then do
> a "c-fix" that replaces that particular "== 3" with ">= 3".

This is how I fixed this locally (by editin the system headers in place).
Unfortunately, fixinc is a black magic box for me, so I wonder if someone
different from this poor bug reporter would mind working on that? ;-)

Gerald



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