On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Dave Thaler via iotivity-dev <
iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org> wrote:

>
> 1)      No platform-specific defines appear on the command line, but only
> appear inside config.h
>
> 2)      #include ?config.h? always occurs before any #ifdef?s in code.
>
> 3)      Platform_features.h gets replaced by config.h stuff
>
> 4)      A few platforms (as close to 0 as possible) have their own
> config.h variants when the toolchain cannot generate config.h? the master
> config.h might have something like (pseudocode)
>
> If OS is (say) tizen
>
>                 Include config_tizen.h
>
> Else
>
>                 Rest of normal config.h stuff
>
> 5)      Platform-specific ifdefs should ideally not appear in any generic
> code, but be confined to code inside a PAL layer.
> We did some of that in the windows-port branch for example, where we
> created Windows versions of pthreads, usleep, etc.
> so as to remove ifdefs throughout normal code
>

My 2 cents: if you're using scons, then config.h is utterly pointless.  The
*only* reason config.h exists in configure/make systems is to transfer info
from the configure phase to the make phase.  There is no justification for
it in a scons system.

-Gregg
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