Re: [XBoard-devel] config.h problem

[Eric Mullins]

Tim Mann wrote:
> Of course other people who download the sources won't necessarily know
> they should do that.  In the short term (2) seems okay to help avoid
> that pitfall, but if the person really is building xboard in the parent
> directory too, (2) will break his xboard build until he regenerates
> config.h.
>   

Since you guys are at least relatively comfortable with 2) [having 
makefiles delete ..\config.h], I have another option, even more kludgy 
for MS compilers.  With gcc, the -I- option allows me to explicitly set 
the INCLUDE order.  No real kludgyness in this one.

For MS compilers, just compile everything in the winboard directory so 
that winboard/config.h is used, and nothing from the xboard directory is 
directly used.  This requires copying the xboard source files we need 
into the winboard directory, compiling them, and removing them.  Pretty 
sickening.  I'm not sure what this will do to timestamps, probably it 
will force them all to be compiled each build.

I'm pretty sure the IDE can get the correct config.h included-- last 
time I checked this was a non-issue in the MSVC IDE.  Maybe I should 
check those makefiles to see what they are doing differently.

Anyway, I've done this before, see this post for reference: 
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49748&p=189940#p189940