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From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: rebuilding gcc - fix-header.exe fails on DOS systems.
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:01:08 +0200
Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> 
..
> > There exists a fix-header program which checks the standard header files
> > for their ANSI and POSIX complianceness and modifies them (while copying
> > them into an include/ directory).
..
> 
> Why does that program runs at all when you build GCC for DJGPP?  Our
> headers are ANSI-compliant to begin with, so it shouldn't be run at all.
> That program (which was previously a shell script) is only needed when
> you install gcc over an existing non-ANSI library.  The configuration
> script should make it so that it doesn't run, if you ask me.
 
That is true, I changed the script, but even then it is still run for
about 4 standard header files. Some prototypes are added to them.

_fmode set seems the most elegant way to correct it.

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