On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:59:37AM -0600, Ted Bullock wrote: > >> Also, #include "config.h" should be wrapped in HAVE_CONFIG_H > >> everywhere.... > > > > No it should not. It simply is not supposed to be meaningful or > > possible to build glib or gtk+ without a config.h, so it is pointless > > to use HAVE_CONFIG_H, they just clutter the code. > > > > I thought that was what glibconfig.h would be used for. If not, why > have two config files? Funny you are trying to make our own Gtk+ distro without knowing what config.h and glibconfig.h are for... config.h contains system information/configuration used to build the package (glib here). It is a private header. Some programs can compile without config.h even though they have configure but these are either simple (wrt system dependencies) or were very carefully written to have some `reasonable' default for anything system-dependent. Glib definitely isn't the former and the latter is not always possible. You are expected to create a static config.h for a system where automatic configuration is not possible[*]. glibconfig.h is a public header and it contains information about configuration of glib on that system that is necessary to build programs using glib. It is placed in lib/lib64/lib32 instead of include because the configuration can (and do) differ between 32bit and 64bit versions (for instance) while include is, in theory, shareable even among different systems. You are expected to create a static config.h for a system where automatic configuration is not possible[*]. Some information might be present in both headers (typically not in the same form though), anyway, you cannot have only glibconfg.h and make everything public because that would expose private stuff that should not be exposed, neither you can have only the private config.h because then programs using glib couldn't get any system dependent information about glib. [*] glib provides these static headers for win32. Yeti _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
