[vorbis-dev] #include scheme in vorbis project

[Trick]

I asked about something similar on the SDL mailinglist a while ago; 
Why do SDL and SDL programs use #include "SDL.h" instead of #include 
<SDL/SDL.h> ? I even got an answer =)

Apparently <> is only truly portable with the _standard_ libs, and 
shouldn't be used for anything else. Same goes for relative paths. 
Fx, the SDL header file isn't in the standard SDL subdir when 
developing on MSVC for some obscure reason (surprise), so relative 
paths are also a bad idea.

Solution: Use double quotes and NO relative paths, and define all 
include locations with -I options to the compiler / preprocessor. 

This is where the config-info files come in handy on *nix systems - 
just call $(CC) with `sdl-config --cflags` as an argument and 
everything is set up as required.. Anyway, doing this shouldn't be 
hard on any system with a make-like build process, just add the 
correct -I to the makefile.


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