Re: XForms: include <> vs "" (was Multiple Languages)

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Fri, 14 Nov 97 13:58:00 PST

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> I agree with TC here. Using "forms.h" instead of <forms.h> is a good thing.

It's not really a religious issue with me.

> Unless you muck with compiler options, <forms.h> is /usr/include/forms.h.
> There may be people using XForms on systems where it hasn't been installed
> in /usr/include, or the version there may be old. There's no reason NOT to
> use "forms.h", since it allows a local copy to override the system copy.

gcc knows about /usr/include and /usr/local/include by default, so if
you put forms.h in one of those two places, then it'll find it by
default (I put my XForms stuff in /usr/local/{include,lib}, myself,
since I have an aversion to putting non-vendor supplied stuff in
/usr/{include,lib} -- makes upgrading an maintenance more difficult --
besides, my /usr/local partition is distributed to all like systems
via NFS). Putting it somewhere else probably means that you have a
non-standard system anyhow, and you're probably going to have a
gillion compiler flags anyhow, so one more won't make a lot of
difference.

Nonetheless, it's mostly a Don't Care to me.

spl
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