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fixinclude & symbolic links to X11

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From: Bill Richter
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 21:44
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gcc-version 		= 2.4.1
Machine 		= sparc 
Operating system 	= SunOS 4.1.2
window system		= X11/R5 running twm
shell			= bash

I had to go to some trouble in installing gcc that was not explained
in the INSTALL file or in the gcc.info documentation.  

The fixincludes script, which is run in making the stage 1 compiler, I
believe, will not work if there are symbolic links in your X11 tree.

So in order to install gcc 2.4.1, I had to put the X11 files
physically on my hard disk.  I now have a directory
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1/2.4.1/include
full of fixed include files.  It's almost 2 Mb in size.

My question is; why don't these include files just come with the gcc
distribution, and skip the fixinclude biz?  

Maybe the answer that 2 Mb times all the different machine and
architectures supported by gcc adds up to quite a lot!

A different question:  Now that I've installed gcc, can I go back to a
symbolically linked X11, in order to save the disk space?
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From: richter@kepler.math.nwu.edu (Bill Richter)
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Subject: fixinclude & symbolic links to X11
Date: 23 Jun 1993 21:44:18 GMT
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