[cairo] internal cairo include syntax seems not flexible enough, backward-compatible fix proposal.
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Sat Sep 20 12:41:31 PDT 2008
Fabien Costantini wrote:
> So my proposal is :
> ==============
> Replace all cairo internal includes syntax using "" instead of <> when the include file concerned is in the cairo include directory.
>
> It would be much easier for unix/cygwin users, and could in many situations avoid the need of encapsulated dirty pkg-config tool invocation as `pkg-config --CXXFLAGS`.
>
> Note that this could also simplify systematic include configuration in visualc devenv tools.
>
> Any thoughts ?
I made this change back in May. Will be in 1.8. But now I wonder if I should
not have done that. Code having #include <cairo/cairo.h> is wrong as far as
cairo API is concerned. On the other hand, I don't get in your way if you
want to shoot yourself in the foot.
Have fun with cairo!
behdad
> Thanks,
> Fabien Costantini.
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