[Libguestfs] [PATCH v6 11/41] utils: Rename ‘guestfs-internal-frontend.h’ to ‘utils.h’.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:30:47AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Friday, 16 June 2017 17:03:34 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > NACK to utils.h -- in the past I've seen a couple of libraries
> > > installing public includes as utils.h. They have been fixed, but
> > > I'd like to avoid conflicts between an installed header and a project
> > > header.
> > 
> > Can we prevent incorrect installation (which I agree could be a huge
> > problem) in some other way?  Maybe it can be done with an
> > install-*-hook.  I will see ...
> 
> Oh sorry, most probably I did not explain very well. The situation that
> I'd like to avoid is: a library installs /usr/include/utils.h (evil!),
> or /usr/include/$foo/utils.h, and we make use of it (directly or
> indirectly) by including /usr/include/$foo.
> 
> Possibly it is a so-corner-case that could be ignored for now, though.

I think the build would fail badly if we included the wrong utils.h.

However we can call it "guestfs-utils.h" if you like.

Rich.

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