Include's out of sys-root

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Fri Mar 5 20:11:00 GMT 2010


On Monday 01 March 2010 13:00:36 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 18:49:27 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > The second one contains the standard C++ library headers. And should
> > > stay. That it is not appropriately located is another issue, and gcc
> > > is responsible for this location.
> > 
> > Wouldnt it be better to have them under $SYSROOT ?
> 
> Wel,, gcc puts them there. I don't know for sure (I actually don't know
> at all) if moving them to sysroot would still work. gcc is such a beast
> that I'd rather not mess too much with its internals... At least, it's
> lying in the tuple/ sub-dir of the toolchain.

it's not worth the effort because it gains literally nothing.  let gcc handle 
its internal headers as it wants.  it makes moving between old/new versions a 
lot easier as well as having multiple versions installed in parallel.
-mike
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