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Re: Problems installing glibc in /usr/local
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: Problems installing glibc in /usr/local
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 09 Sep 1998 09:00:35 -0700
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de>, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <199809091513.LAA20762@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
> I think we should override gcc's <limits.h> entirely. This would be easy -
> just take out the #include_next and the #ifndef around the ANSI limits
> definitions. We'd have to specialize those limits to each processor, but
> that should only require a bits/ansi_lim.h for wordsize-32 and wordsize-64.
> gcc's header already defers to the one we install.
This creates confusion because then the gcc version of limit.h is
still used. I haven't yet looked at this problem but if possible it
should be fixed by fixing the problem and not duplicating the
information.
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