On May 28, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "upstream packages" might be a third-party OS vendor who supply > their own compiler and have no interest in supporting GCC. Even if the > OS system headers get changed, that doesn't help users who have the > unchanged version (e.g. someone wanting to build GCC on SOlaris 9 > isn't helped by a change in Solaris 11). New OS releases frequently > include changes that need to be worked around (e.g. FreeBSD recently > started using C++11 attributes in their system headers, which GCC > doesn't support yet.) OK, thanks for this reply. For a situation when the only available headers are the sanitized Linux headers and those from recent glibc (or some other modern libc) am I correct in assuming that this script is unnecessary and could, conceivably alter something that shouldn't be altered? Thanks, JH
