<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:08, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":6j">For files like aij.h if you use the localinclude.h paradigm then in aij.c you would have #include "aij.h" but in mpiaij.h you would have #include <./src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.h> I don't like the fact that in different files the sameinclude is referenced in a different way. Now one could argue that private includes used ONLY locally use the "localinclude.h" model and private includes used more than locally use the <../src/path/to/localinclude.h> but why?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>So that they can be built independently from the source tree.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div id=":6j">
Better the simplicity of always using the <../src/path/to/localinclude.h> model.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>There are at least four approaches</div><div><br></div><div>1. #include "../seq/aij.h"</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. #include <../src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.h></div><div><br></div><div>3. Have the build system add -I$PETSC_DIR/src/mat/impls/aij/seq and use #include <aij.h></div><div><br></div><div>4. Move this not-truly-private header to include/private/matseqaij.h and #include <private/matseqaij.h>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>1 permits relocating part of the source tree and compiling (a variant of) a single module without changing includes. 2 requires modifying all derived implementations if the header is relocated and only works if the full source tree is available. 3 is the same, but the change is only to the build system and the build system is more easily "aware" of this cross-dependency. 4 is a direction that we have already been going over the past couple years (some implementation headers moved from src/dm/ to include/private) because users wanted access to some internals from a prefix-install (perhaps to create their own derived implementation).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a good reason not to use 4 for shared headers and #include "mine.h" for unshared (and not intended to be derived from)?</div>