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Re: .h.in vs .in.h


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: .h.in vs .in.h
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:31:09 +0100

I think it's simply that you can't do:

grep ... *.h

This won't include *.h.in files.

Michael.


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Júlio Hoffimann
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> What exactly is the problem with the grep regexps and the file extensions?
>
> Regards,
> Júlio.
>
> 2012/4/11 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>>
>> In Octave we have some .h and .cc files that are generated from .h.in
>> and .cc.in files.  This naming scheme causes trouble if you are trying
>> to grep for all occurrences of some string in all .h files.  To solve
>> this problem, gnulib uses .in.h instead.  Is there any objection to
>> renaming the .h.in and .cc.in files to be .in.h and .in.cc instead?
>>
>> jwe
>
>


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