Re: Inline function in header depends on config.h

[Wil Turner]

Thanks very much - we ended up using AC_CONFIG_HEADERS with an existing 
header in the library and moved the critical defines to that header.

Problem solved - thanks again :)

Wil

On Jan 12, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > William Turner <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I have a member function of a class in a library that, for 
> > > performance
> > > reasons, needs to be inline, and therefore needs to be in the header
> > > file. However, the operation of the function depends on the contents
> > > of config.h, which is not installed when the library is, presenting
> > > difficulty when a user of the library needs to make use of the 
> > > inlined
> > > function. What's the best way to resolve this,
> >
> > Use the autoconf-generated script to modify the header in question,
>
> another option would be to have a small subset of config.h, say 
> mylib-conf.h,
> generated by configure from mylib-conf.h.in .
> This header would be installed and your header could include it.
>
> You have to add
>
> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(mylib-conf.h)
>
> to your configure.ac to get this file generated.
>
> HTH,
>         Stepan Kasal