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Date:      Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:25:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Remove -nostdinc in aicasm
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1107021120450.6818@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAOfDtXNRwaa8VrnhXZsgFb3uPTFPxZYXtLWX3WHMAq8PQaP7Wg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAOfDtXNRwaa8VrnhXZsgFb3uPTFPxZYXtLWX3WHMAq8PQaP7Wg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Robert Millan wrote:

> The userland aicasm utility in sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile is being
> built with "-nostdinc -I/usr/include" options.  Unfortunately this breaks
> building aicasm on systems using the upstream version of GCC, where
> "-nostdinc" disables more search directories than are enabled by
> "-I/usr/include".

There is a functional difference between '-nostdinc -I/usr/include -I.' 
even when the standard include search path is just /usr/include -- the 
standard include paths are always searched last (unless -nostdinc is 
given), even if they are explicitly listed on the command line.  If there 
are conflicting definitions in /usr/local/foo.h and ./foo.h, this gimmick 
can be necessary to pull in the correct version.  (I've needed to do this 
when packaging software for the freebsd ports collection, though with 
/usr/local/include replacing '.'.)

I have not checked whether this affects aicasm, though (which may or may 
not manifest itself as compiler warnings).

-Ben Kaduk

>
> This was introduced by obrien (CCed) in 2002, apparently to remove a
> warning.  I've verified that removing it doesn't produce any warnings
> on FreeBSD 9-CURRENT environment.
>
> Please consider this patch to remove -nostdinc in that file.
>
> -- 
> Robert Millan
>



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