Re: config.h

[Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 20:06, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> It's not entirely unheard of for an application to use two packages that
> both use GNU configure to build themselves.  For example, the PyGtk wrappers
> pull in .h files from both Python and Gtk.  The Python folks have begun
> naming their configure-generated config file "pyconfig.h".  I think it would
> be worthwhile to consider changing the Gtk config file to gtkconfig.h,
> obviously not for 2.0, but soon after.  Leaving it as it is just invites an
> eventual name(space) clash.

No good, right-thinking library should ever install its config.h file or
#include "config.h" in any of its headers.

I doubt very much that gtk+ is doing this.  If it is, it is a serious
bug.

-JT