Hi
I've been using gnulib for some years now in my GNU packages, but I was
wondering whether I'm using correctly, since some people reported some
compilation errors on some architectures...
I'm using getopt module, and on that architecture the user gets this
compilation error
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../src/skels -I../lib -I../lib -g -O2
-MT yyerror.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/yyerror.Tpo -c -o yyerror.o yyerror.cc
../lib/getopt.h:194: error: redefinition of ‘struct option’
/usr/include/getopt.h:54: error: previous definition of ‘struct option’
though that source file does not use getopt, but probably gets to use
stdlib (which is required by getopt module if I'm not wrong)... it
probably uses stdlib header file when including C++ string header file...
now, on the manual I read
"These Gnulib substitute header files rely on <config.h> being already
included. Furthermore <config.h> must be the first include in every
compilation unit. This means that to all your source files and likely
also to all your tests source files you need to add an ‘#include
<config.h>’ at the top. Which source files are affected? Exactly those
whose compilation includes a ‘-I’ option that refers to the Gnulib
library directory. "
and that's something I didn't do: I was including config.h only in those
files that rely on getopt (or on another constants set in config.h).
So the compilation problem goes away if I put config.h in all source
files, but is that really necessary?
Would it be correct to put config.h only say in file1.cpp (and use the
‘-I’ option that refers to the Gnulib library directory for that file
only), and not in file2.cpp and file3.cpp (where I don't use -I to refer
to gnulib library directory), and then link all the 3 files together by
also putting -lgnu?
or should I do something else?
thanks in advance
Lorenzo
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