Re: Why manual says *don't* add config.h to _SOURCES definition!?!

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> On page 24 of automake manual....
> 
> "In case it isn't obvious, you should not include the
> header file generated by 'configure' in a
> '_SOURCES' variable; this file should not be
> distributed."
> 
> I thought source code /should/ #include "config.h"
> so C preprocessor can have access to it at compile time.

Yes. But the manual is talking about defining a variable with the SOURCES
suffix in a Makefile.am. That has nothing to do with your C code.

A user of your package would run the configure script, which generates
config.h. So you don't need to include config.h in your package.

Bye, Rich =]

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