Re: [ROOT] <TH1.h> or "TH1.h" ?

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@nbi.dk)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 15:09:56 MET


Hi Jan,

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 13:37 +0100, Jano Hruby wrote:
>   Hello, 
> in your $ROOTSYS/test/EventTree_Proc.h: 
>  
> #include <TChain.h> 
> ... 
> #include "TH1.h" 
>  
> why not <TChain.h> and <TH1.h> or "TChain.h" and "TH1.h" ? 
> How is "more correct, clean" using <xxx.h> or "xxx.h" (under linux, gcc 
> and compile with make from $ROOTSYS/test/Makefile) ? 

>From the GNU CPP 3.3 manual:

`#include <FILE>'
     This variant is used for system header files.  It searches for a
     file named FILE in a standard list of system directories.  You can
     prepend directories to this list with the `-I' option (*note
     Invocation::).

`#include "FILE"'
     This variant is used for header files of your own program.  It
     searches for a file named FILE first in the directory containing
     the current file, then in the same directories used for `<FILE>'.

So by this logic, when one includes header files from third-party
packages, one should use `<FILE>' as it will not search in the current
directory first.  Note, that exported header files should also use
`<FILE>' as third-parties may include that header.  I think this goes
for any POSIX platform. 

I think the real question is why not `<root/TObject.h>' rather than
`<TObject.h>'.  If that was the case, one wouldn't need to specify any
additional search path to the preprocessor if one installed ROOT in
`/usr' of `/usr/local'. 

Yours,

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