Re: [Linux-ia64] The 1117 snapshot cpp problem

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

|> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:37:24PM -0800, Jim Wilson wrote:
|> > >I guess it is a long standing issue in the Cygnus toolchain. The
|> > >problem is this change:
|> > >Bascallly, it sets local_prefix = prefix, which means
|> > >$local_prefix/include = $prefix/include
|> > 
|> > >Now, gcc will search /usr/include before others. It is not very good
|> > >for Linux.
|> > 
|> > Yes, this is a problem.
|> > 
|> > I've reverted the Cygnus local change in my source tree, and have started
|> > working to get the same change into the main Cygnus source tree.  This will
|> > require changing some local build processes, so it may take a little time.
|> > 
|> > There is no problem with cross compilers as you suggested, because cross
|> > compilers don't use /usr/local/include.  I believe the original problem was
|> > that we shipped compilers to some customers that had random files in
|> > /usr/local, the customers reported problems, and we had a lot of trouble
|> > debugging the problem.  We fixed it by deciding not to use /usr/local/include
|> > by default anymore.  This was 8 years ago, so Linux usage was not a concern.
|> > Now that we are part of Red Hat, it is a serious concern.
|> > 
|> > The resulting patch is 100K because configure had to be rebuilt.  I put it
|> > in the usual place, ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/ia64-linux/snap-001117/patch.055.
|> > 
|> 
|> I don't think it works with the gnupro rpm from RedHat. I had to
|> add the patch enclosed here. I think the problem is includedir in gcc
|> is overriden from the toplevel Makefile.

This is a very old bug that I have already reported twice (see
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-07/msg00488.html and
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-05/msg00477.html).

Andreas.

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