Eric Blake wrote:
> But which order is preferred?
>
> The gnulib manual recommends:
> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/lib -I$(top_srcdir)/lib
It is like this on purpose. As Mike has explained, there are situations
(which shouldn't occur but somehow do occur in rare cases) where the
.h file is lef
On Thursday 02 February 2012 15:40:59 Eric Blake wrote:
> Yes, hacks like that render the question of stale files moot. But
> without resorting to sledge-hammers, can we come to a consensus on which
> way things should listed be in a best-practices project?
i have my personal opinion, but i'm amb
On 02/02/2012 01:43 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> And coreutils has a bug, for forgetting the builddir version (which
>> means it will build in an in-tree build, but probably fail in a VPATH
>> build):
>> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/lib
>
> "forgetting"? ;-) Nah.
> On the contrary, I vaguely recal
Eric Blake wrote:
> The manual (gnulib-tool.texi) recommends including both builddir and
> srcdir into AM_CPPFLAGS (aka INCLUDES if you are using automake 1.9),
> which makes sense, since some headers come straight from gnulib and live
> in srcdir, while other headers are generated based on config
On 02/02/2012 01:28 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 02 February 2012 15:10:11 Eric Blake wrote:
>> Is there any specific reason that gnulib recommends builddir (generated
>> files) before srcdir?
>
> my gut tends to prefer builddir over srcdir. but that could be due more to
> poorly mana
On Thursday 02 February 2012 15:10:11 Eric Blake wrote:
> Is there any specific reason that gnulib recommends builddir (generated
> files) before srcdir?
my gut tends to prefer builddir over srcdir. but that could be due more to
poorly managed packages than a "best practices" setup. in cases wh
The manual (gnulib-tool.texi) recommends including both builddir and
srcdir into AM_CPPFLAGS (aka INCLUDES if you are using automake 1.9),
which makes sense, since some headers come straight from gnulib and live
in srcdir, while other headers are generated based on configure results
and thus live i
