forget *documenting* libiberty -- how about *installing* it?
Jeffrey A Law
law@redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 20:57:00 GMT 2001
In message < 20010102180811.A1612@disaster.jaj.com >you write:
>
> The README file for libiberty starts off:
>
> This directory contains the -liberty library of free software.
> It is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU programs.
> ...
> We expect many of the GNU subroutines that are floating around to
> eventually arrive here.
>
> I was writing the chunk of libiberty.texi on "how to use these subroutines
> in various GNU programs that you the friendly user might be writing" when
> I remembered that we never install header files for libiberty; only the
> actual .a file.
That can be fixed easy enough :-)
> Can we consider adding installation rules for the libiberty header files?
Yes.
> The only suggestion I have for "where" is the obvious one of
> "in a libiberty subdir" so that users would need to write
Either $(prefix)/include or $(prefix)/include/libiberty would make the
most sense to me.
jeff
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