Some food for thought:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:20:10PM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:13:28PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > If you really want to have it installed, don't call it `config.h', or
> > at least install it in include/. To accomplish
Hi Gary,
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:44:40PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hmmm. I think that installing config.h is a bad idea under any
> circumstances. I talk about this in some detail in the ``Project''
> chapters of the Goat Book (linked from my homepages), and offer an
> ugly but functio
Assar Westerlund wrote:
>
> Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a massive set of C++ libraries that use
> > CVS libtool, autoconf and automake to build and install.
> > Since users then need to have _all_ the header files
> > they also need to have the configure generated config.
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:44:40PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Hmmm. I think that installing config.h is a bad idea under any
> > circumstances. I talk about this in some detail in the ``Project''
> > chapters of the Goat Book (linked from my hom
Hi Hari,
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:51:10AM -0600, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm not sure that I agree with you, though I confess that I probably
> > haven't thought about this issue as much as you. Please feel free to
> > correct me. :-)
>
> But, y
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the macros placed in the package specific config.h are named so
> that they are specific to the given package then why is installing
> that header a problem.
I would agree with Gary here that the symptom is installing the
config.h (or whatever it's c
Hi Assar,
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:40:30AM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> I would agree with Gary here that the symptom is installing the
> config.h (or whatever it's called). The problem is that the interface
> exported from the library should not depend on the parameters found
> out by con
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ossama Othman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:40:30AM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> > I would agree with Gary here that the symptom is installing the
> > config.h (or whatever it's called). The problem is that the interface
> > exported from the library should not d
Hi, Ossama.
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, sometimes this can't be avoided in the case of inlined
> functions (e.g. C++). It isn't always feasible, particularly in
> terms of performance, to always keep function implementations hidden
> within the library. One could argue
