> There have been discussions about the need (or lack of) for this script > to run on the Linux From Scratch development list. In LFS gcc is > bootstrapped in a very confined chroot environment where the only > headers available are the Linux headers and those from glibc. What is in > question is whether it is better in our very minimal build environment > to let the script run or disable it.
That's indeed a decision that needs to be made on a platform by platform basis. You can easily evaluate what the scripts does, it's only text as input and text as output. If it does nothing for your platform at a given point in time, you might want to take the risk of disabling it for the future. > After reading up further, it appears that the possibility exists that > the script may 'fix' things in the libc headers that we don't want or > need 'fixed'. I'm trying to ascertain what things the script in > particular is 'fixing' and which way is more technically sound in our > build scenario. In my experience, bugs in fixincludes are very rare. Every fix that is applied is documented in the sources. -- Eric Botcazou
