automake and dist data

[dagecko]

Hello,

I hope someone here will be able to help me.

I'm developping a middle-scale library that uses autoconf and automake. This 
library comes
along with some demo and test programs. Those demo and test programs now 
require some
input files in order to run. Those input files also have to be distributed with 
the
package. I actually tried to put those input data files into the header 
directory and
I also wondered if I could put them into the share subdirectory.

The problem I'm facing is this one:

The test programs will have to read those data, but I actually can't know where 
those
input data are stored (it is top_srcdir/include) but it is somewhat impossible 
from
what I know to give that directory to C/C++ file functions.
Of course, I can code that in the hard way. But that will work as long as the 
project
is not installed. But once installed (on any uknown machine), I really can't 
know
where to find those input files. If they are installed in the include 
subdirectory,
then I can have a look at /usr/include, or it might be /usr/local/include, or
whatever directory a final user would have put to configure. It is the same 
thing if
I put those data in the share subdirectory.

Does anyone has an advice, a hint, or a solution for me ?

Thanks