Re: Using $bindir in configure.ac

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Magnus Therning wrote:

> You are right, $bindir is the directory is going to be installed in.
> However strange, I do have a reason for wanting to use it in my
> configure.ac.
>
> We have a set of related projects, they should all be installed in the
> same locations. The executable I need AC_PATH_PROGRAM to find is
> installed by one of the projects, and needed in building several of the
> other projects. I thought it would be nice to not force the user to
> modify $PATH before building by adding $bindir to the path that's
> searched by AC_PATH_PROGRAM.

#
# Evaluate shell variable equivalents to Makefile directory variables
#
if test "x$prefix" = xNONE
then
  prefix=$ac_default_prefix
fi
# Let make expand exec_prefix.
if test "x$exec_prefix" = xNONE
then
  exec_prefix='${prefix}'
fi

#
eval "eval PREFIX_DIR=${prefix}"
AC_SUBST(PREFIX_DIR)
eval "eval EXEC_PREFIX_DIR=${exec_prefix}"
AC_SUBST(EXEC_PREFIX_DIR)
eval "eval BIN_DIR=$bindir"
AC_SUBST(BIN_DIR)
eval "eval SBIN_DIR=$sbindir"
AC_SUBST(SBIN_DIR)
eval "eval LIBEXEC_DIR=$libexecdir"
AC_SUBST(LIBEXEC_DIR)
eval "eval DATA_DIR=$datadir"
AC_SUBST(DATA_DIR)
eval "eval SYSCONF_DIR=$sysconfdir"
AC_SUBST(SYSCONF_DIR)
eval "eval SHAREDSTATE_DIR=$sharedstatedir"
AC_SUBST(SHAREDSTATE_DIR)
eval "eval LOCALSTATE_DIR=$localstatedir"
AC_SUBST(LOCALSTATE_DIR)
eval "eval LIB_DIR=$libdir"
AC_SUBST(LIB_DIR)
eval "eval INCLUDE_DIR=$includedir"
AC_SUBST(INCLUDE_DIR)
eval "eval OLDINCLUDE_DIR=$oldincludedir"
AC_SUBST(OLDINCLUDE_DIR)
eval "eval INFO_DIR=$infodir"
AC_SUBST(INFO_DIR)
eval "eval MAN_DIR=$mandir"
AC_SUBST(MAN_DIR)

Bob
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