Re: [Cegcc-devel] limits.h not found

[Pedro A. <pe...@co...>]

On Saturday 30 January 2010 11:35:45, Danny Backx wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:47 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Danny Backx wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 13:33 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > >> i've just installed cegcc (mingw32ce compiler) from the svn repo. There is
> > >> a limits.h in the folowin sub directories:
> > >>
> > >> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/include/c++/4.4.0/tr1/
> > >> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/include/
> > >> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/lib/gcc/arm-mingw32ce/4.4.0/include-fixed/
> > >> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/lib/gcc/arm-mingw32ce/4.4.0/install-tools/include/
> > >>
> > >> When i include limits.h, it is the one in the third directory that is
> > >> chosen, and not the one in the second (which, i think, is the correct
> > >> one). Is it normal ?

Doesn't the gcc version include_next the mingw one?  Is there
actually a problem you're seeing?

> I reread your original message again after a full reinstall on my
> system. The full reinstall made the fourth limits.h - the one you're
> mentioning - turn up again.
> 
> So I must have removed it locally because of an issue with it, and
> forgotten all about it :-)
> 
> I just spent a while figuring out why this file is getting installed. In
> the gcc build system, this appears to be hardcoded, so not something I
> can work around easily without upsetting the gcc folks.

> So the next best thing appears to just remove it in the
> scripts/build-mingw32ce.h .
> I just committed such a fix, can you verify ?

Please don't.  Please revert.  If there's a real
problem here, I'm sure it has a proper fix.  Let's not get
into the habbit of committing quick workarounds for not
understood problems.

-- 
Pedro Alves