Raja R Harinath wrote: > Hi, > > Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've got a project that has 24 Makefile.am files. At the top of all of >> them at the moment, I've got: >> >> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/include -I$(top_srcdir)/include > [snip] >> PS. Yes...I know the -I$(top_builddir)/include is ridiculous... I >> inherited that and just haven't gotten rid of it yet... but the >> fundamental question of "how do I add one or more include paths globally >> from a top level in a sane manner still holds... > > Since your main question got answered... What's wrong with > -I$(top_builddir)/include? It's most definitely not redundant. Of > course it can be superfluous if you don't have any generated header > files in the build tree. But, why "ridiculous"?
Well... "ridiculous" may have been a bit strong... we generate a couple of header files, and each of them could be done in a better way. So I'm probably just projecting my hatred of my generated headers... :) Monty
