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Re: CONFLICTS that SHOULD be!
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] CONFLICTS that SHOULD be!
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:01:13 +0100
- Cc: 'eCos Disuss' <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <000701c12699$2dc520b0$090110ac@TRENT>
"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>
> The following two items were required by the File I/O package. When I
> removed that package they were not disabled. As a result I got an error
> saying that the file or directory didn't exist. In particular,
> <cyg/posix/signal.h>.
> CYGBLD_ISO_SIGNAL_NUMBERS_HEADER
> CYGBLD_ISO_SIGNAL_IMPL_HEADER
>
> The following two items were required by another package which I think
> was File I/O as well. When I removed the package they were not
> disabled. As a result I got an error saying that the file or directory
> didn't exist. In particular, <cyg/posix/limits.h> and/or
> <cyg/fileio/limits.h>
> CYGBLD_ISO_POSIX_LIMITS_HEADER
> CYGBLD_ISO_OPEN_MAX_HEADER
>
> To be or not to be, that is the question!
Hmmm... yes, it would do that. This is an old chestnut that has caught us
out even internally before: should values be reinferred every time
something changes. Or perhaps even just when the user explicitly wants.
Right now we do neither :-|.
I think we should at least allow the user to force a reinference. However
customers tend not to pay for host tools, so very little development gets
done except in "spare time", so I don't know when that would appear. Sorry.
Of course, you have the source :).
Jifl
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