Sharing private header files into ldb?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:30 +1000, Martin Schwenke via samba-technical
wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:12:51 +1200, Andrew Bartlett
> <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a good, already established method to share a file
> > (binsearch.h in this case) from lib/util into ldb, without making it a
> > public header we install and depend on?
> > 
> > I think we did something like this for ccan, replace et al as a bundled
> > library, but I'm just checking what the current experience/best
> > practice for essentially an internal copylib is before I dig further.
> > 
> > We have a lot of these already, like the whole build system, so I feel
> > this isn't novel
> > 
> > I need it to:
> >  - work for bundled and standalone builds from git
> >  - be present in ldb tarballs
> >  - be in only one spot in our git tree
> > 
> > Any clues most valued!
> 
> Check out the use of samba_dist.DIST_DIRS() near the top of
> ctdb/wscript - I notice that lib/ldb/wscript has something similar.
> I guess you should be able to accomplish something similar with
> samba_dist.DIST_FILES() to get that one file bundled?

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett
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