Re: [Devel] #include hacks in freetype headers

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I guess the hard part is requiring portability to an 8.3
> environment; I didn't know people still used DOS instead of
> Windows...

You should have a talk with Eli Zaretskii :-)

> What I did learn is that 'makedepend' can deal with
> 
>       #define FT_BUILD_H              <freetype/ftbuild.h>
>       #include FT_BUILD_H
> 
> but not
> 
>       #define FT_ERRORS_H            FT_PUBLIC_FILE(fterrors.h)
>       #include FT_ERRORS_H

After some clean-up we will use the former.

> But, it doesn't seem like even this form will be as flexible as the
> current scheme.

As already mentioned in another mail, many, many `ANSI' compiler have
buggy preprocessors -- we had to withdraw all our sophisticated
improvements :-(

> Unless you're willing to fix the relative location of the header
> files, I don't see any way to change the header files to allow
> 'makedepend' to work reliably.

Please be patient until we've fixed this.


    Werner