On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Guido Draheim wrote:
Patrick Guio wrote:
Dear all,
This is not really a bug but I wonder if you have any remedy to the
following problem. If you use autoconf/automake for several packages
which interact with each other and for each package you generate a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
configuration file config.h you migh end up with redefinition warning
message if config.h's are read "together".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... warning: "PACKAGE_VERSION" redefined
... warning: this is the location of the previous definition
... warning: "VERSION" redefined
... warning: this is the location of the previous definition
My concern is how to avoid this? Shouldn't these macro defintion be unique
for each package? Should there be a protection mechanism?
*How* do you let them "interact with each other"?
*Why* are config.h's read together?
What I mean by "interact" is that one package uses on another one :-)
I can give you an example. I have a package pack1 which I have encapsulated
in another one, pack2 (I mean that I have a subdirectory pack2 in pack1
and that configure.ac of pack2 has a AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(pack1) command).
I have choosen this architecture since pack2 (plasma simulator) builds on
top of pack1 (pde solver) and pack1 could be used on its own or for other
projects.
Until recently, I didn't use the command AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and I didn't
have any problem since the macros definition -DPACKAGE -DVERSION were
option commands and put just once per compiler command.
Now I wanted to start using AC_CONFIG_HEADERS because I have too many
defs, so I have just a AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([pack1-config.h])
and AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([pack2-config.h]) for each package.
The pack1-config.h is included only if HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined and is
included in my definition file for the package (C++ typedefs for template
arrays (double/float), constant defs, dimensionnality of the problem, MPI
use, FFTW use, HDF use, etc...). Each class declaration and definition
needs this file. The same is done in pack2 but some classes of pack2 uses
public methods of pack1 classes. Therefore in some classes definition of
pack2 I have to include the class declaration of some peculiar classes from
pack1. The result is that the pack1-config.h and pack2-config.h are both
included.
Now I don't really see how I can avoid that. But you may have suggestions?