From: Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:30:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Explain the config header voodoo.
X-Git-Tag: 0.0.90~144
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba0ce39b7012b0c3bc3ad31310e35fd3da59fcb5;p=libjpeg-turbo

Explain the config header voodoo.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.code.sf.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/code/trunk@10 632fc199-4ca6-4c93-a231-07263d6284db
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bc8a462..79bdb45 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memset memcpy], [],
 	[AC_DEFINE([NEED_BSD_STRINGS], 1,
 		   [Define if you have BSD-like bzero and bcopy])])
 
-# config.h should not be included
+# jconfig.h is the file we use, but we have another before that to
+# fool autoheader. the reason is that we include this header in our
+# API headers, which can screw things up for users of the lib.
+# jconfig.h is a minimal version that allows this package to be built
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([jconfig.h])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])