Bug 55735

Summary:	allow specifying that subprojects can inherit includes from higher levels
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Jay <joerg>
Component:	Build tools: Automake	Assignee:	KDevelop Developers <kdevelop-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jay 2003-03-09 11:33:12 UTC

Version:           Gideon CVS (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

In automake projects, when I set internal or external includes for the topproject, no subproject inherits the includes. Instead, I have to set them for each subproject individually.

Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2003-10-28 00:02:52 UTC

Is this a bug? 

Is it unthinkable that two sets of include flags are mutually exclusive? If that isn't the case, I don't see how "inheriting" include flags from the top project can be done safely.

Comment 2 Jay 2003-10-28 00:38:17 UTC

Subject: Re:  autoproject: extra include dirs not inherited by subprojects

If it's intended, it's a usability bug maybe. My project makes use of 
auxiliary libraries which I don't have installed in the usual /usr/include 
path PLUS the project consists of a lot of subdirectories which all need 
these includefiles. For sure it can be possible that a topfolder needs 
includes the subfolders don't, but then I think there is a need to make 
inheritance optional ( like you can optionally assign new filepermissions in 
subdirectories, too, in konqueror ).

Regards,
J

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2005-10-20 02:41:01 UTC

not a bug, but definitely something that we could implement in the future