Re: SWK - problem building the framework

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Nikolaus,

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> could we please discuss such topics because it
> is a multi-platform project?
>
> I just found a patch committed to the repository instead.
>
> I could argue that GNUstep make is broken, because it does
> not understand #import "DOMHTML.h" as being the same.
>
> Note the source did compile fine on mySTEP and MacOS X.
> Both appear to cope better with the unmodified source.
>
> But nevertheless the fix for GNUstep is not harmful to
> compilation on the other platforms so it is ok.
Indeed, I was able to compile on Mac 10.4 without problems. Also Gregory 
tested it with his buildtool and it works.

Apparently, GNUstep make (at lest in the way i wrote the makefile) has a 
problem when importing locally ("") a header file that will be later 
exported in the framework since it duplicates it in a separate 
derived_src directory where, being it a separate file #import will 
reimport it.

Is this indeed a problem with GNUstep make and not just a missing option 
or wrong way in writing the makefile?

Apparently, using <> to import only for exported headers works, but is 
it correct? and does it work with other build system / platforms? It 
would be a limitation of gnustep, but at least we have a best practice 
for portable code. That is Greg's patch.

I hope Nicola or Richard or other experts can shed some light in here.

Riccardo