Not updating Makefile correct

[Marcus Gruendler]

On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:40 you wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using kdevelop 1.4 , and when im doing som sort of changes in the
> compile settings, this is not reflected in the makefile.
>
> And when I do a Make Distrubution, so does kdevelop ignore all my extra
> includes and my extra libs that I've included????
>
[...]

Hi Fredrik,

I am just working on the same "problem" here with my project. In the first 
run I thought it is a bug in KDevelop but after some thought I realized that 
it is the only correct behaviour KDevelop can do.

The point is: if you set extra include/library diretories within the KDevelop 
dialogs, these settings are specific to your computer/system only. Now, if 
you make a distribution and give your project away to someone else who does 
not have the includes at the same location as you have, he could not compile 
your project at all.

The solution is to write autoconf macros that find the include/library paths 
and set them into the makefiles. I know this is not a simple job especially 
for a beginner, but it's the only way. For a first step you could have a look 
at the file acinclude.m4.in in your projects directory. This is the place you 
should put your new macros which will be used in configure.in

There is a very good online book about GNU autotools at 
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

I have no solution for your first point yet. I think KDevelop should put the 
compiler flags into the Makefile.am in order to use them in a distribution.

I hope this helps a little.

Bye, Marcus

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Marcus Gruendler
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