On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:30:49 +1000 (AEST) Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> > I didn't want to get into this but the problem is that as part of
> > it's build/bootstrapping process, GCC historically takes system
> > headers and attempts to "fix" them. I am unsure the fixes do
> > anything at all nowadays but the effect is that the compiler tends
> > to take snapshots of the system headers when it is built. cdefs.h
> > is used by all the system headers so changes in cdefs.h have good
> > chances affecting such builds but any change are likely to cause
> > similar trouble.
> >
> > In the case of gcc-aux, it appears the compilation is based on a
> > bootstrap compiler which already carries outdated headers.
> > A workaround, suggested by gerald@ the last time a similar issue
> > happened was to run for install-tools/fixinc.sh. I think that may
> > regenerate the headers and let the build use updated headers.
> > Ultimately gcc-aux needs maintainer intervention and using
> > outdated headers will break sooner or later: especially on
> > -current.
>
> Indeed, thanks for the analysis/background, Pedro!
>
> I had a look at gcc6-aux is based on the 20170202 snapshot of GCC 6,
> and perhaps John (as the maintainer of that port) has plans to update
> it? Let me copy him.
>
> Gerald
>
> PS: John, if you have an update, happy to help and apply that for you.
Hi Gerald,
it was suggested multiple times that the whole fixinc step is
ultimately harmful and serves no useful purpose and probably should be
disabled in built packages outright. Is there a reason not to do it?
Even Redhat appears to do the slimming in their rpms:
mv $FULLPATH/include-fixed/syslimits.h $FULLPATH/include/syslimits.h
mv $FULLPATH/include-fixed/limits.h $FULLPATH/include/limits.h
for h in `find $FULLPATH/include -name \*.h`; do
if grep -q 'It has been auto-edited by fixincludes from' $h; then
rh=`grep -A2 'It has been auto-edited by fixincludes from' $h |
tail -1 | sed 's|^.*"\(.*\)".*$|\1|'` diff -up $rh $h || :
rm -f $h
fi
done
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