[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8164) building out of a builddir: generate_packets.py

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8164 >

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:01:37AM -0800, rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8164 >
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> K&R - The C Programming Language  (aka the "C" Bible).
> 
> Basically this is "C" 101 coding practice. Not only clean - but the defined
> way to write "C" code.
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> Cheers,
> RossW
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> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8164 >
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> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:11:12PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> >>Fortunately automake already has a method for including a file from the 
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> >>builddir: by using <> instead of "" for the file name.  This changes the 
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> > This doesn't seems clean. Is this really the canonical way? Can you
> > cite a source.

I was not about writing <> and "" per se but the use of these
constructs by automake. IMHO all project specific files should be
included by "". It is non-intuitive for a newbie why certain files
should use <> while other doesn't. And yes I know that we already have
this with config.h. But this files is very special.

        Raimar

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