Re: include bugs in gnome2 modules

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Frank Belew <frb ximian com> writes:

> I've noticed quite a few gnome2 modules have hardcoded in their
> Makefile.am in INCLUDES a -I$(includedir)
> This breaks if your gnome1 prefix == gnome2 prefix since it will find
> headers there first. Since all the gnome deps are managed by pkg-config
> and everything else is in system direcrories, this is unnecessary. If
> you have a dep that isn't in a standard place, then the builder must use
> CPPFLAGS
> 
> In other words, don't add -I$(includedir) to your INCLUDES, it causes
> too many problems.

Note, however, that if you want gnome2 to work at _all_ reliably, you
must upgrade to the parallel installable gnome1 packages, in which case
this problem won't happen.

(Though other problems will. It's still a bad, bad thing to do.)

Regards,
                                        Owen