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Archived Messages for CLAS_OFFLINE_1997@cebaf.gov: Re: include file policy

Re: include file policy

Mark M. Ito (marki@CEBAF.GOV)
Mon, 12 May 1997 11:54:38 -0400 (EDT)

Listed Folks,

>
> Last Friday Mark and Dennis discovered that there are TWO versions
> of the include file: bcs.inc in the tree. One is found in
> include/bcs.inc and the other is found in bosio/bcs.inc. Under no
> circumstances should there be two include files with the same name.
> Unfortunately Mark and I implemented two fixes to the same problem.
> Mark blew away bosio/bcs.inc so that include/bcs.inc would not
> be overridin by bosio/bcs.inc. I altered the Makefile so that
> it would NOT search in parallel directories for include files.
>

Actually, I did not blow away bosio/bcs.inc. Instead I forced make to
search in _all_ of the package directories for include files (which I
still think is the right thing to do). This was done so users would
not need to do that themselves. The dual bcs.inc caused this fix to
fail.

-- Mark

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