[odb-users] Cannot suppress inline file creation

[Ben Morgan]

Thanks for the quick response!

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>wrote:

> It won't be difficult to support it in the upcoming 2.2.0, but I am
> wondering why you want to suppress the inline function? You are the
> first person asking for this since the ODB's first release...


Well... perhaps I am doing something very unnatural...
I'm trying to make a library that a number of programs will use to access a
database.
So I go for this structure:

include/mylib
    datatype_headers.hpp
    ...
    odb/
        datatype_headers.hxx

So the idea is to be able to have other programs be able to include
<mylib/datatype.hpp> and if needed <mylib/odb/datatype.hxx>.
But datatype.hxx needs to refer to datatype.hpp, soo I use
--include-prefix, but then at the bottom there is also #include
"../datatype.ixx",
which is in the same directory though!

(I solved this problem now by using --include-regex). If you think my
naming/structure is bad, please tell me.
This is only my second serious library (attempt). I had to hack enough with
"--ixx-suffix ixx and --odb-file-suffix .", etc. to get it as is -
which almost suggests that I'm doing something wrong...

Ben