Re: [gentoo-user] How does Gentoo deal with GCC's header fixes?

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes > to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions.  Now a binary > distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem. > > Gentoo o

[gentoo-user] How does Gentoo deal with GCC's header fixes?

2010-09-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
When building GCC, it will scan all headers in /usr/include and apply fixes to them, and then copy them and use the modified versions. Now a binary distro (AFAIK) will ship the GCC modified headers, so there's no problem. Gentoo on the other hand will work as intended by GCC only if the user