Re: Rename config.h to pg_config.h?

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2001-08-13T18:59:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Another bug report complaining of include file name conflicts came in
> just now.  The only solution I can see is to rename config.h to
> something more project-specific.  Should we do this, or keep ignoring
> the problem?

I would vote for renaming it.  I've run into the problem of getting
the wrong config.h file.  config.h is a fine name to use for a
standalone tool.  It's not particularly good for a library, and
Postgres does have a library component.

FYI, in BFD (the library used for gdb and the GNU binutils) we jump
through hoops to to generate a bfd.h file which is properly configured
but does not include a config.h file--see, e.g., BFD_ARCH_SIZE and
BFD_HOST_64BIT_LONG in /usr/include/bfd.h on Linux.

Ian