Re: use of config.h (fwd)

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 16 May 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Could you tell us what went wrong? What settings you needed from config.h?
> 
> I can't imagine that most files in GLib need config.h - mostly, the settings
> that are actually fairly general will be in glibconfig.h.
> 

Actually, yes I can now. 

It seems the cause of this (plus a lot of headache) was the config.h has
the lines:

	/* Define as __inline if that's what the C compiler calls it.  */
	#define inline

while glibconfig.h does not have the equvalent. The result is a horrible
failure in gutils.h - and yes, G_HAVE_INLINE is defined to be 1. 

A disconnect like this between config.h and glibconfig.h is hard to track
down 8-(

>                                         Owen
> 

	Sander

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