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excessive stab information

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Thu Apr 28 15:50:00 GMT 2005 
----Original Message----
>From: Andy Chittenden
>Sent: 28 April 2005 16:34

>>> ...  Most people do not refer to the same header file using two
>>> different names.
> 
> This comes about as we "publish" headers that define public interfaces
> to subsystems into a "public" directory that other subsystems can
> #include from. We do this via symlinks. The "duplicate" stabs come about
> by virtue of the publishing directory finding the original header
> and the using directory using the published one.
> 
> This is not the first environment in which I've seen this technique
> used.


  Why don't you sort out the search path in the makefile so that the
publishing library also finds the public interface header first?  That would
be good practice and achieve the desired consistency.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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