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Re: Why manual says *don't* add config.h to _SOURCES definition!?!
From: |
Richard Dawe |
Subject: |
Re: Why manual says *don't* add config.h to _SOURCES definition!?! |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:03:29 +0100 |
Hello.
address@hidden wrote:
>
> On page 24 of automake manual....
>
> "In case it isn't obvious, you should not include the
> header file generated by 'configure' in a
> '_SOURCES' variable; this file should not be
> distributed."
>
> I thought source code /should/ #include "config.h"
> so C preprocessor can have access to it at compile time.
Yes. But the manual is talking about defining a variable with the SOURCES
suffix in a Makefile.am. That has nothing to do with your C code.
A user of your package would run the configure script, which generates
config.h. So you don't need to include config.h in your package.
Bye, Rich =]
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