On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Simon Baldwin <sim...@google.com> wrote:
> Add a configure option to disable system header canonicalizations.
>
> Libcpp may canonicalize system header paths with lrealpath() for diagnostics,
> dependency output, and similar.  If gcc is held in a symlink farm the
> canonicalized paths may be meaningless to users, and will also conflict with
> build frameworks that (for example) disallow absolute paths to header files.
>
> Tested with bootstrap builds of C and C++, both with and without configure
> --disable-canonical-system-headers.  Okay for google/integration?

Seems like a reasonable candidate for trunk, and I'd rather have fewer
patches in google/integration than more.  Can you send a copy of this
patch for inclusion there?  Let's at least see what people say.

Ollie

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