Re: [ft] Macros for includes

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Using macros for includes in the way freetype does has a major short
> coming, and that is that a lot of tools which crawls through
> #includes for symbols & dependency graphs fails hard.  I'm sadly
> using 2 of these tools, one which is invaluable on windows (visual
> assist), and a distributed build system which doesn't work when
> using freetype.  While visual assists problems is localized to
> freetype symbols, the build system is unusable with freetype.  Just
> thought I'd let you guys know :)

Thanks.  You should report the shortcomings to the maintainers of the
tools you are using.  What we do is valid usage of the C preprocessor;
a bit non-standard perhaps, but fully valid :-)


    Werner