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NO! Having spells mess with install logs (even their own) is a Very Bad 
Thing (tm). It makes it possible for a spell to corrupt all the infomation 
about all spells.
If you ask me, the bug is in gcc itself, not the spell, but the program. 
There should be a way for it to use the right headers.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Christian Sonne wrote:
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> not knowing _exactly_ how --fix works, but asuming it does something
> like check if the files from the install-log are existing, then wouldn't
> it be better to just make the spell tamper with the install-log, remove
> the desired line, so it won't corrupt during fix?
> 
> having to recompile gcc is arguably better than corrupting spells, but
> imho still a Bad Thing (TM).
> 
> FreakCERS
> 
> > So, if recompiling gcc after ncurses (and slang) fixes those, we should
> > add triggers to gcc so that it recompiles after these are updated (and any
> > others that people find).  I haven't tried recompiling gcc to see if this
> > works (recompiling now, but it's a PII-300, so it'll take a while.  ;)),
> > but if anyone else knows/can try faster, please do.
> > 
> > Here is the slang info:
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > -One of Four
> > a.k.a. sandalle
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