[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] full paths in #include directives

Diego Biurrun diego
Fri May 9 01:46:57 CEST 2008


On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:29:54AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:59:51PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:52:20PM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> >> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > > I would like to propose using full paths in all #include directives in
> >> > > FFmpeg, i.e.
> >> > > 
> >> > > #include "libavutil/common.h"
> >> > > 
> >> > > instead of
> >> > > 
> >> > > #include "common.h"
> >> > > 
> >> > > The reasons are manyfold:
> >> > > 
> >> > > 0) We already expect this from external users.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 1) Many header names are not at all unique.  The above-mentioned
> >> > > common.h comes to mind, as do others.  Depending on the order of -I
> >> > > flags the right header may or may not be included.
> >> > > 
> >> > > This has bitten me several times in MPlayer already.  We now use full
> >> > > paths for FFmpeg #includes in MPlayer, but still -I flags are needed
> >> > > so that the FFmpeg headers themselves can find their dependencies.
> >> > > But with -Ilibavcodec on the gcc command line '#include <png.h>'
> >> > > picks up the FFmpeg version instead of the libpng header.  Build
> >> > > system kludges can work around this, but the system remains brittle,
> >> > > future FFmpeg changes may necessitate more or updated kludges.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 2) The need for -I flags would be reduced internally as well as
> >> > > externally.
> >> > > 
> >> > I like this proposal, but I would prefer if headers in the same
> >> > directory don't use full path.
> >> 
> >> seconded
> >
> > But this only solves half of the problem.  Things like
> >
> > #include "png.h"
> > #include "common.h"
> >
> > can still pick up the wrong headers with an unfortunate combination of
> > -I flags...
> 
> Not with a POSIX-compatible compiler:
> 
>   Thus, headers whose names are enclosed in double-quotes ( "" ) shall
>   be searched for first in the directory of the file with the #include
>   line, then in directories named in -I options, and last in the usual
>   places.
> 
> As I said earlier, we already assume (more or less) a POSIX compiler
> by using the -I flag in the first place.

Are you sure this guards against the following case?

Imagine that you have a file foo.c that contains

#include "libavutil/avutil.h"

and libavutil/avutil.h contains

#include "common.h"

Will that not look for the common.h sitting next to foo.c?

Diego




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