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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: #define warnings when using various autotools projects |
| Date: | Tue, 13 May 2008 12:52:46 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 13 May 2008, John Calcote wrote:
But this is very common mistake. It comes from carelessness about which header files are considered part of the public interface, and which ones should be kept private. The generated config.h header file is intended to help BUILD the library on a particular platform, not provide support for consumers of the library through the public interface of that library. And yet I see this happen all the time.
It is sometimes necessary to provide build-specific typedefs and defines in order for the installed header files to correctly represent the library interface. If "config.h" is not used, then a more elaborate means needs to be used to make this possible.
For my own project, I use two "config.h" files. One is used to build the software and the other is trimmed down to support only what is actually needed to define the interface header ABI.
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