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Re: Mixing BUILT_SOURCES, double quote include and separation ofsource and binary directory
On March 30, 2005 10:14, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/include -I$(top_builddir)/include
Sure, this fixes the problem given in my example. But I can't do that because
of this:
> > The quick fix is to add the location of inc.h, prefixed with
> > $(top_builddir). However, in my real project I have hundreds of such
> > files with hundreds of such locations. I would quickly hit the limit on
> > command-line arguments.
I would like to add that if I wasn't building in a secondary directory I
wouldn't encounter this limit because I wouldn't need a -I flag at all
because the preprocessor begins checking in the directory of the file
containing the double quote include directive.