http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48009

--- Comment #6 from Daniel Richard G. <skunk at iskunk dot org> 2012-05-13 
05:11:32 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> AIX 4.3 is extremely old and support was withdrawn a while ago. I am surprised
> that anyone is trying to build recent versions of GCC for it. If someone wants
> to develop a fixincludes patch, I can review it. The problem undoubtedly
> exists, but can be worked around manually.

My employer favors the use of older systems for software builds, as Unix is
generally solid on forward compatibility and this prevents awkward scenarios
where a customer is running an older OS than we are.

Continuing GCC support is one of the downsides of this approach, of course. I
wouldn't be surprised if support for AIX 4.3 is obsoleted soon, but I'd like to
ensure that everything is working before that point. (I didn't follow up
Solaris 8 as aggressively, and now I'm trying to get some fixes in even as the
support is being ripped out of 4.8.)

I can provide a unified-diff patch for the header in question; I don't know how
to hack fixincludes. (If anyone can point me to a fixinclude that does the same
kind of one-line change elsewhere, I could work with that...)

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