While working on the preferences migration I had to introduce two source files that are generated during compilation.
These files are generated in the build directory (if building out-of-tree). Without any changes to the include paths in the makefiles, this results in a build error (source not found). I looked a bit closer and found that we are specifying the include search paths as absolut paths from the $(top_srcdir), like -I$(top_srcdir)/src/gnome-utils, ... Obviously with such a path spec my built source files in the build directory never get found. If I change the above to -I../gnome-utils (this example is for in the gnome/Makefile.am), it works. That is because the compiler will expand this path in both the source dir as the build dir. So my question: is that the right approach and secondly, why was the $(top_srcdir) notation chosen in the first place ? Note that there were already built sources in the gnucash code. These are included using a path relative to src, for example #include "core-utils/gnc-version.h" and the relevant Makefile.am has a pathspec like -I$(top_builddir)/src Seems ... inconsistent ? Or what am I missing ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
