> -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:04 AM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] kbdgentables > > Weddington, Eric wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > So I see that the executable kbdgentables(.exe) is > installed in /bin. > > > > What is this used for? Is it used only for the examples? > Why is it installed? > > > > > If that is all it is used for and not needed if the examples are > installed, then it should be marked "noinst". This patch does > that and I can apply it if you want.
>From looking at the automake Makefile it seems that kbdgentables is used (with >a couple of .dat data files) to generate a header file, which is dependency of >keyboard.cpp, which in turn is part of the libsim library. So to my eyes it >should not installed. However, if these data files (keynumber_to_scancode.dat and xcode_to_keynumber.dat) never change, hence the header file never changes, then why don't we just check in the generated header file and be done with it? Why continue to build the generator program kbdgentables.exe? Eric Weddington _______________________________________________ Simulavr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/simulavr-devel
