Re: How to use PREFIX created by autoconf in source file

[Peter Johansson]

On 02/09/2014 10:17 PM, Adam Jiang wrote:
> Autoconf could help to generate configure script which accepts an option
> called --prefix in general. In this way, users could specific a path where
> programs/data installed.
>
> In my program, I'd like to refer the location where data files are
> installed. In plain Makefile, it could be done like
>
> gcc -DPREFIX "/usr/share"
>
> and in the source file, data path is generated in
>
> #define DATAPATH PREFIX "/data"
>
> with autoconf, how could I use the path specified by --prefix in source
> code? Is there a pre-defined MACRO for this?
Have a look in the manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Defining-Directories




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Peter Johansson