Re: XForms: what is the proper directory for forms.h?

From: Rouben Rostamian (rostamian@umbc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 22:32:53 EST

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    # To subscribers of the xforms list from "Rouben Rostamian" <rostamian@umbc.edu> :

    Clive A Stubbings <xforms@vjet.demon.co.uk> wrote:

    > Must admit it always looked a little strange to me too.
    > If the consensus is /usr/X11R6/include/X11 then I'm happy to
    > move them in my 0.89 rpms.
    >
    > While I'm at it..
    >
    > libs in /usr/X11R6/lib
    > bins in /usr/X11R6/bin
    > mans in /usr/X11R6/man
    > docs in /usr/doc/xforms-0.89
    > demos in /usr/lib/xforms
    >
    > Anyone got any better ideas?

    These are pretty reasonable suggestions. You will also need to put
    forms.h somewhere. To be consistent with the above, it will go in

         /usr/X11R6/include/X11/

    Commonly /usr/include/X11/ is a symbolic link to the directory
    above. Because of that, users will #include forms.h by doing:

         #include <X11/forms.h>

    Alternatively, if you put form.h in /usr/include, users can simply say:

         #include <forms.h>

    Either /usr/X11R6/include/X11/ or /usr/include/ is acceptable to me.

    What do others think?

    Another comment:

    I am looking at the Red Hat distribution and SuSE distribution of
    Linux right now.

        Red Hat tend to keep /usr/X11R6/lib strictly for the core X
        Window development libraries, such as libX11.so, libXt.so, etc.,
        and puts all other libraries, X related or not, in /usr/lib.

        SuSE lumps all X related libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib.

    Again, I don't have a preference one way or another. 

    -- 
Rouben Rostamian <rostamian@umbc.edu>
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