[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] Out-of-srcdir builds, -Werror resistance

[Mark Adler]

On Jul 21, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Well, the zlib.h #include could be rewritten as e.g.
> 
> 	#ifdef ZLIB_INCPATH_SET
> 	#  include <zlib.h>
> 	#else
> 	#  include "zlib.h"
> 	#endif
> 
> and then builds which set -Iblah appropriately would also do -DZLIB_INCPATH_SET. Would this work for you, as a way of catering to both out-of-source-tree and command-line builds?

I suppose, but it seems awfully messy.

How about instead for an out-of-srcdir build the makefile deletes zconf.h from the srcdir?  I'm fine with that, since make distclean will put it back.

Mark