Re: Solving the config.h nightmare ?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Daniel Reed wrote:
> It's almost always a mistake to install generated headers. Distribute an .m4 
> with your software that [re]performs all of the checks that dependent 
> software will need to make. Install that instead of what is essentially just 
> the cached output of its run (which is what your config.h is, whatever you 
> prefer to call it) so dependent software devlopers can just call 
> OB_PROG_CEYLON in their configure.ac and get their own config.h files (or 
> CPPFLAGS or whatever mechanism they prefer) sanitized.

This is an interesting approach, but dependent software will then be 
using tests which are possibly out of date as soon as the dependent 
package is distributed.  While possibly solving some problems, the 
approach creates new ones.

Bob
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