Re: [RFC] Header organization

[David Ayers]

Adam Fedor wrote:

> The only problem with a real Foundation/AppKit directory is on MacOSX, 
> when compiling the BaseAdditions library, the compiler will find this 
> directory in preference to the installed Foundation framework. I have 
> to think of a solution for that (even if it's specific to 
> apple-apple-apple libcombo).
Hmm... Are you saying, that I could install base (not just Additions) on 
OS X?  I didn't realize this.  And while building base (incl. the 
Additions subproject) the preprocessor would include Apple's Foundation 
headers instead of base's?  (When simply buliding Additions on OS X, I 
would not expect to include/install Foundation headers from base.)

Then again any system that allows a parallel installation of different 
Foundation / AppKit installations would be tricky, eventhough careful -I 
placement might handle it, if the search paths aren't hard coded into 
Apple's cpp.

This seems like a more fundamental issue on OS X.  But I don't see how 
the proposed change really plays into this issue.  Unless currently, 
when building base for OS X, there is some makefile magic that puts all 
GS headers into gnustep/base.  But then the includes would also have to 
be adapted to include from there instead of Foundation....

I'll have to dig into this, unless we're misunderstanding each other 
somewhere.

Cheers,
David