Re: PATCH: Don't use header files in glibc configure

[Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>]

Hi!

On Fri, 25 May 2012 20:58:14 +0000 (UTC), "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
> > +# Glibc should not depend on any header files
> > +AC_DEFUN([_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS],
> > +  [m4_divert_text([DEFAULTS],
> > +    [ac_includes_default='/* none */'])])

> If we do need to use autoconf internals, you should ask the autoconf 
> maintainers to add an official supported way of changing the defaults so 
> that when we move to a new autoconf release we no longer need to use 
> internals like that.

That sort of already has happened/blessed -- that is, the asking/idea,
not the implementation -- when I once proposed the exactly same thing:
<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87bougerfb.fsf%40kepler.schwinge.homeip.net%3e>.
I have not yet gotten around to implementing this on the Autoconf side.


On Fri, 25 May 2012 13:27:32 -0700, "H.J. Lu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> wrote:
> Here is the patch adapted from the patch for the same problem in libgcc:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53183

Interesting -- didn't know about that one.


GrÃÃe,
 Thomas

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