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Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED with unresolved shell variables


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED with unresolved shell variables
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 20:31:15 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hello Roland,

* Roland Illig wrote on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:19:54AM CET:
> 
> FOO_DIR="${bindir}"
> AC_SUBST(FOO_DIR)
> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(FOO_DIR, "$FOO_DIR",
>                    [Directory where foo files are installed])
> 
> The problem with that is that the value of bindir is usually 
> '${prefix}/bin'
[...]
> What is the most elegant way of solving this?

See here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Defining-Directories.html

If gnulib is an option for you, then you could use the configmake
module:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/MODULES.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html#module=configmake

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf




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