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GCC needs to install corrected versions of some system header files. This is because most target systems have some header files that wont work with GCC unless they are changed. Some have bugs, some are incompatible with ISO C, and some depend on special features of other compilers.
Installing GCC automatically creates and installs the fixed header files, by running a program called fixincludes
. Normally, you dont need to pay attention to this. But there are cases where it doesnt do the right thing automatically.
mkheaders
script installed in libexecdir/gcc/target/version/install-tools/.The programs that fix the header files do not understand this special way of using symbolic links; therefore, the directory of fixed header files is good only for the machine model used to build it.
It is possible to make separate sets of fixed header files for the different machine models, and arrange a structure of symbolic links so as to use the proper set, but youll have to do this by hand.