Re: PATCH: NSPathUtilities etc

[Adam Fedor]

On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:

> Sheldon Gill wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I think that such configuration definitions and conditional 
> > compilation
> > switches would be best moved to a file, say "options.h", which can 
> > then be
> > easily edited for various compile time preferences. I think it's a 
> > better
> > way for gnustep-base to go, rather than relying on autoconf to 
> > generate an
> > appropriate 'config.h' header which has to include such things in 
> > line.
>
> Does this mean that we couldn't use the configure options such as 
> --prefix and
> --sysconfdir and we would have to edit the hypothetical "options.h" 
> manually?

I was thinking more along the lines of setting up the preferences in 
gnustep-make (using --prefix and everything else as it is now). Then 
the GNUstep.conf file is generated in gnustep-make (perhaps it needs to 
be generated in gnustep-base as well so it can be installed by 
gnustep-base (without having to install gnustep-make)).

When compiling gnustep-base, you have

DEFS= -DGNUSTEP_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(GNUSTEP_TARGET_INSTALL_PREFIX) \
        [...] \
        -DGNUSTEP_CONFIGURATION_FILE=$(GNUSTEP_CONFIGURATION_FILE)

I don't like having to edit 'h' files before compiling something. 
That's what configure is for.