Would like to import CORE into Fedora (naming problem)

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Wed Sep 13 21:43:35 UTC 2006


Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 13/09/06, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:47:06 +0200
>> Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora_extras at normalesup.org> wrote:
>>
>> > During the review of CGAL¹ (bug #199168), a problem was raised by
>> > Ralf C.: the first version of CGAL-devel was shipping CORE², a
>> > dependency of CGAL. That library installs its headers
>> > into /usr/include/CORE/* and Ralf said that the name "CORE" is too
>> > general for an inclusion into FE.
>>
>>
>> As others have suggested, I agree that:  /usr/include/CGAL/CORE
>> is a safe, easy, and totally reasonable fix.
> 
> 
> This would require editing existing code changing all #include directives
> 
> #include <CORE/foo.h>  --->  #include <CGAL/CORE/foo.h>
> 
> wouldn't it?

No you would merely patch the pkgconfig file to add /usr/include/CGAL as 
  an extra -I.

But yeah, probably not worth the effort. I don't see much wrong with 
having /usr/include/CORE around either...




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