Re: import vs include Re: Porting autogsdoc to OSX

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Dirk Theisen wrote:

> Hello, Pascal!
>
> > What about just compiling with -DSTRICT_OPENSTEP?
> >
> > Well,  last  time  I  checked,  it  had  problems...  This  should  be
> > addressed; I'll test again with a fresh cvs update.
>
> I used this define in porting GSWeb and I set it to 1. This caused the 
> compiler to throw warnings and to not use the precompiled headers of 
> Apples foundation (which undefs this, as it seems). This made compiling 
> this fairly large project unacceptably slow on my notebook. I finall 
> replaced it by OPENSTEP_STRICT which is not used by Apple and made me 
> productive again.

Why did you define it when building on MacOS-X?  It doesn't make sense 
to define a flag to turn
off extra features in GNUstep when building using MacOS-X anyway.  The 
GNUstep features could not
possibly be there anyway.

> I now read that there is also STRICT_MACOS_X. I am using this one now 
> and it seems to work OK.
>
> I think we need a better solution as this one also has problems.

What are the problems - if we don't get any bug reports we can't fix 
things.