From kde-devel  Fri Oct 29 16:40:38 2004
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:40:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Updating a Makefile.am
Message-Id: <200410291840.39300.faure () kde ! org>
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On Friday 29 October 2004 18:34, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've been always using kdevelop for helping me in the creation and management 
> of Makefile.am's. Now, I've been reading the Makefile.am howto (thanks David) 
You're welcome :)

> a) KDevelop, when adding a new class, adds the source file to _SOURCES, of 
> course, but the header is added in noinst_HEADERS. Both the howto, and the 
> manual, say that they should be added to AM_CPPFLAGS (indeed, they are 
> because $(all_includes) ). It's a minor bug in KDevelop, or it acts this way 
> because a justified reason?

You're confusing headers that you wrote yourself, and headers that you use.
Headers that you wrote yourself can go in noinst_HEADERS, or you can omit them completely.
For headers that you want to use, you need a -I directive in AM_CPPFLAGS indeed.

[b) left for people who know more about xdg apps stuff]

> c) And the last one, I promise :-). Those Makefile.am's that KDevelop 2 
> generated, include the "install-data-local" and "uninstall-local" targets to 
> install icons and desktop files. If a package uses _DATA and _ICONS, should 
> these targets be removed?
Yes. _DATA and _ICONS are definitely preferred.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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