[XBoard-devel] config.h problem

[Eric Mullins]

In order to build winboard properly, we must #include the correct 
config.h file from the winboard directory.

If this file happens to be present in the xboard directory, all the 
cmdline compilers I'm testing will #include the wrong one.  I suspect 
the GUI ones won't suffer from this problem, but I'm not sure yet.  This 
problem affects devs more than regular users, since we are more likely 
to actually have config.h in the xboard directory.

So what do we do?

1) nothing.  Assume the devs are smart enough to just delete the 
config.h from the xboard directory when this happens.  When we package 
the source, there shouldn't be a config.h in the xboard directory 
anyway, so end users trying to compile winboard should never get this 
problem.

2) update the GCC and MS makefiles to remove ..\config.h.  I don't see 
any immediate downside to this, but it seems kludgy.

3) rename winboard/config.h to something else.  I'm not sure what 
ramifications this might have.  All the files in the xboard directory 
that we need actually do need winboard/config.h.  The problem is that 
config.h in the xboard dir is automatically generated, while the one in 
the winboard directory isn't.  Maybe it used to be at one point, but it 
became a sort of bastardized version of config.h specific to windows.  
Unfortunately, it's the one we actually need right now.

4) other ideas?