[GRASS5] Re: grass/gis.h

[Glynn Clements]

Radim Blazek wrote:

> > Also, for 5.1, it might be worth giving all of the GRASS headers a
> > prefix directory, i.e.
> > 
> > 	#include <grass/gis.h>
> > 
> > The headers themselves could then go into /usr/include/grass without
> > needing to use any -I switches (cf. the number of queries we get
> > regarding --with-postgres-includes).
> 
> I would slowly start that. I'll put a copy of all GRASS header files
> to $ARCH/include/grass, e.g. $ARCH/include/grass/gis.h
> and I'll start to change all #include <xxx.h> to #include <grass/xxx.h>
> in grass51 files. The files linked from grass50 will be changed once 
> moved to grass51.
> Is it correct?

Probably.

> What about more versions of GRASS, say 5.7.10, 6.0.0 etc.?
> How should be header files installed?

Nobody else seems to bother about this. Although ultimately we should
respect configure's --includedir= (and similar) switches rather than
forcing everything into subdirectories of --prefix=.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>