Re: further changes - request for comments

[David Ayers]

BALATON Zoltan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Nicola Pero wrote:
>  
>
> > * installing all headers in Headers/ix86-linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/xxx which
> > matches the Libraries/ix86-linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/xxx directory, and means
> > you don't need to install cpu/os specific headers in a separate directory.
> >    
>
> Do you really mean all headers? It seems to be unnecessary as most headers
> are (or supposed to be) platform independent. After this change would be
> the same set of headers installed in different directories for each
> platform in a non-flattened installation? This is ugly. Isn't there a
> better way to keep non platform specific headers installed only once?
>  
Hello Balaton,

Actually it's a simple tradeoff between installing multiple headers and 
reducing -I flags.  I'm not really sure whether the Headers really need 
to be installed in library combo specific directories for any other 
reason than the -I flags, that couldn't be resolved with #ifdef's but as 
that would only affect -make and those header internals, so I'm not too 
worried if we decide to change it again, even though we would 
"recomplicate" -make.  It would be nice though if the issue could be 
resolved once and for all before we release again.

Cheers,
David