On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote:

(The problem is that this project has a string.h, which conflicts with
the standard string.h. Besides, why "-I." in the first place? Is it
because some people prefer #include <blah> over #include "blah" for
their own header files as well?)

My guess: in short, -I. ensures uniformity between the "inplace builds"
(srcdir = builddir) and "VPATH builds" (srcdir != builddir).

It assures uniformity, even if it is uniformly incorrect.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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