autoconf problem

[Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de>]

Hello,

when building the packages I want to maintain I need to define
some PATH-variables for pixmaps and libraries.

What would be the appropriate way to do that?

In the case of xteddy, I have to tell xteddy, where to look for
the pixmaps (my version can load not only xteddy but any pixmap
which is given in some strict rules).

I tried autoconf.  My configure.in contains the lines
       ...
    AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PIXMAP_PATH, "${prefix}/include/X11/pixmaps")
       ...
This should produce in the resulting Makefile
    
    DEFS = -DPIXMAP_PATH=\"${prefix}/include/X11/pixmaps\" \
    
but if configure is invoked without any arguments
    
    DEFS = -DPIXMAP_PATH=\"NONE/include/X11/pixmaps\" 
    
and if a prefix was given (configure --prefix=/usr)
    
    DEFS = -DPIXMAP_PATH=\"/usr/include/X11/pixmaps\" 
    
Is there another way to tell programs where to look for pixmaps
or libraries.  Is there a library which handles such problems
(I want to do the following: at first search the files in "." than
in the path defined by PIXMAP_PATH, may be it is reasonable to
use an environment variable for further searchpath.  This is a
common problem in my opinion so that there might be some ready
to use functions in a library.)
    
Regards

       Andreas
       


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