Re: /usr/lib/glib/include and /usr/lib/Gtk--/include

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:

> I'm curious as to motivatio behind the decision to put glibconfig.h
> and gtk--config.h in /usr/lib/{glib,Gtk--}/include instead of
> /usr/include.  AFAIK, these are the only packages in all of Linux to
> handle files that must be included for compilation in this way, and
> make trying to build Makefiles using automake/autoconf unnecessarily
> unpleasant.  Why was it done?

See question 2.6 of the FAQ on http://www.gtk.org.

Regards,
                                        Owen