Bug#93157: Please provide a better description
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:36:54AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Package: fixincludes
> Version: 3.0-pre010
> Severity: normal
>
> The current description reads:
>
> > fixincludes - Fix header files
>
> > Fix places in in the header files which use constructs that are
> > incompatible with ANSI C.
>
> > Not all packages with header files are installed at gccs build time
>
> I really can't make heads or tails out of that. Is this a developers'
> package? Will it fix my includes? Does it fix other people's includes?
> Is this gcc-3.0 specific? What does this *do*?
>
The README from gcc/gcc/fixinc/ in the CVS sources...
See also: http://autogen.SourceForge.net/fixincludes
The set of fixes required was distilled down to just the data required
to specify what needed to happen for each fix. Those data were edited
into a file named gcc/fixinc/inclhack.def. A program called
AutoGen (http://autogen.SourceForge.net, ver 4.x) uses these definitions
...
Lots of info at the above link, why, how, etc...
Gordon Sadler
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