Re: best practice for injecting include dir across a project

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Monty Taylor <address@hidden> writes:

> I've got a project that has 24 Makefile.am files. At the top of all of
> them at the moment, I've got:
>
> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/include -I$(top_srcdir)/include
[snip]
> PS. Yes...I know the -I$(top_builddir)/include is ridiculous... I
> inherited that and just haven't gotten rid of it yet... but the
> fundamental question of "how do I add one or more include paths globally
> from a top level in a sane manner still holds...

Since your main question got answered...  What's wrong with
-I$(top_builddir)/include?  It's most definitely not redundant.  Of
course it can be superfluous if you don't have any generated header
files in the build tree.  But, why "ridiculous"?

- Hari