[gmx-developers] template.c does not compile due to types/trx.h

[David van der Spoel]

On 2010-08-27 10.49, Teemu Murtola wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:05, David van der Spoel<spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>  wrote:
>> the share/template/template.c does not compile in the master branch when I
>> build gromacs in a separate object dir:
>>
>> In file included from ./gromacs/types/trx.h:43,
>>                  from ./gromacs/typedefs.h:52,
>>                  from ./gromacs/futil.h:40,
>>                  from ./gromacs/filenm.h:39,
>>                  from /home/spoel/GG/gromacs/share/template/template.c:32:
>> ./gromacs/types/../vmdio.h:22:28: error: molfile_plugin.h: No such file or
>> directory
>> ./gromacs/types/../vmdio.h:23:26: error: types/simple.h: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> The source code refers to include files in
>> <gromacs/futil.h>
>> etc.,
>> but the real problem I guess is that types/trx.h includes
>> #include "../molfile_plugin.h"
>> #include "../vmdio.h"
>>
>> That seems like a bad idea. I disabled building the template for now.
>
> Which system this is on? For me, the template compiles just fine with
> an out-of-tree build with the master branch just before your commit.
> Those #include "../file.h" are used in several headers under
> include/types, and that's about the only way of making them work
> irrespective of preprocessor include flags. And it seems that they
> also include the correct file in your case, but that files included
> from those ones don't work for some reason.
>
> Teemu
This is on both mac and linux.

The problem is I guess that this works only once you have installed the 
header files previously, and I am compiling to empty destination. So if 
you run configure --prefix=/tmp/test I suspect that you would get this 
problem as well. If this is the case then you are always compiling with 
header files that possibly could be old.

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