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[julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)]

Hi

>>>>> "JY" == Jimmy Yen(???) <Jimmy> writes:

JY> It came to me that it may be possible to check the file names of
JY> the header files each existing spell updates, and recast gcc if
JY> there's a match with its modified header files.

That won't do it. If foo-1.0.0 installs headers which don't get fixed
it doesn't mean that foo-1.0.1 headers will not get fixed either. So
it would be necessary to recast gcc after every cast that installs any
headers.

JY> I think we should either recast gcc
JY> constantly (which seems really impractical,) or don't let gcc
JY> store the fixed headers at all. Removing the gcc-modified headers
JY> directly when casting gcc can make our life a lot easier, if it's
JY> OK to do so.

I have already modified the gcc spell to ask whether fixed includes
should be installed. (There is a make target for that; no need to
remove fixed includes manually.)

If this does not cause major problems I will make it the default.

Julian