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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:24:12 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Patch: sentinels for typedefs in headers (long)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Thanks for your comments.

> > Currently we see following possible solutions:
> > 1) Override USER_H and not install those headers for DJGPP.
> > However, discussion between FreeBSD maintainers and you showed
> > that you're not going to accept this solution, although we
> > were unable to find any _technical_ arguments for doing so.
> 
> >From our discussion here it seems that this is the solution most of us
> prefer.  It is also how DJGPP worked from day one: GCC headers were
> not installed.

OK, I'll add this.

> So perhaps it is better to limit the message just to this one
> possibility, and ask the maintainers why, technically, do they insist
> on installing headers that can potentially conflict with the library
> internals.  

In this case, it will become basically the same message I've sent
previously. IMHO we should show The Big Picture - we could get
useful comments about other possibilities.

I'll wait for a while before sending it, maybe we will get something
from previous mail.

Laurynas