On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:31:44AM -0700, Micah Dowty wrote:
> This is a question that a lot of people are probably interested in, but it's 
>primarily directed at Frederic:
> 
> I'm getting a little tired of copying over picogui's headers to cli_c and themetools 
>when i make changes, and when new client libraries are written (my current task is 
>preparing the network code for this) the problem will only get worse.
> 
> PicoGUI's situation seems a bit like Linux and the kernel headers... there may be a 
>better solution, but what I would propose is having a "make install" in pgserver 
>install the headers from pgserver/include/picogui/*.h into 
>/usr/local/include/picogui. Then, the client libs and theme tools would reference 
>those headers. Extra headers for the specific client libs would be added in 
>/usr/local/include and /usr/local/include/picogui when "make install" is run in cli_c.
> 
> The advantage of this method is that cli_c and themetools don't need a copy of 
>pgserver's headers, only the new headers for cli_c. The disadvantage is that you have 
>to install pgserver before you can build cli_c.
> 
> -- 
> Only you can prevent creeping featurism!

You could also provided a
--with-pgui-libs=/usr/src/picogui/pgserver/include option in the
./configure script.

That would allow ppl who do not want to install pgserver to still be
able to build whatever other software they desire

EKS - Dave Poirier

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