Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:09:05 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indiscriminately installing all .h files in /usr/include/* Message-ID: <20030210220905.D5CA32A8C2@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030210184934.GW88781@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> [030210 10:35] wrote:
> > phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
> > > In message <20030210114740.GG5355@starjuice.net>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
> > > >On (2003/02/08 14:31), phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Not being the kind of guy who casually walks through /usr/include
> > > >> once in a while, I only now just discovered that "make installincludes
"
> > > >> indiscriminately installs all .h files under /usr/include.
> > > >>
> > > >> I understand the desirablity of simple makefile magic for this task,
> > > >> but couldn't we agree on some sort of magic-marker to put in files
> > > >> we want or don't want installed in /usr/include ?
> > > >
> > > >Could you give some specific examples of files you wouldn't want
> > > >installed by this target?
> > >
> > > geom/geom.h for starters.
> > >
> > > Other examples:
> > > cam/cam_extend.h
> > > cam/cam_periph.h
> > > cam/cam_queue.h
> >
> > I've been wondering if we need an explicit list of files to install for
> > a while. We've got lots of junk in /usr/include/dev/* that really shouldn'
t
> > be there. The only stuff that should be there are things to define
> > sysctl, ioctl etc user interfaces. Things like hardware register definitio
ns
> > and random driver internals definitions do not really belong there.
> > /usr/include/usb/* is a good example. We do similar bad things for the
> > file systems.
>
> If there was a way to do it via cpp defines inside the header that would
> be nice.
Something like this perhaps?
^/* EXPORT_HEADER */$
Cheers,
-Peter
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