Re: [Mesa3d-dev] src/types.h

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

"Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen" wrote:
> 
> br...@va... wrote on 17-NOV-2000 16:53:40.03
> To:     "Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen" <jo...@hr...>
> CC:
> Subj:   Re: [Mesa3d-dev] src/types.h
> 
> >"Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen" wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> src/types.h gives problems on my VMS machine because it is sometimes mixed-up
> >> for the system include file types.h. My suggestion is to give it another name
> >> but which???
> >
> >Once upon a time, the dlist.h source file was just named list.h and
> >people said that their compilers were getting a system list.h file
> >instead.  So I renamed list.h to dlist.h.  I wondered how types.h
> >worked for those same people.
> The problem arose when I switched the threads on. <pthread.h> includes
> somewhere <types.h>, which is supposed to be the system one, however mesa's
> one was taken.
> 
> >My understanding of #include is that #include "quotes.h" should
> >search the current directory then -I directories before the
> >system include directories.  Conversely, #include <brackets.h>
> >should search the system directories first.  I lost my copy of
> >the K&R book years ago.  Can someone verify this?
> In that case my prepocessor is buggy!
> 
> >Are you sure that there's no accidental use of #include <types.h>?
> >Or perhaps you need the equivalent to -I. for your compiler?
> see above


Well, if you really can't fix this problem we can rename types.h.
It's not a big deal.  Now would be the time to do it since we're
making lots of changes.

-Brian