Re: defining directories with autotools
Hello,
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:15:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Having all those $*dir's done by automake and autoconf is all fine, but
> how does the program know at runtime what the user entered as argument
> to configure? Say, the program has some datafiles it needs in
> $datadir/program, how does it know that the user typed ./configure
> --datadir=/opt/you/would/not/guess ?
This is something that is more apropos of the auto-* lists.
And guess what: it's been asked there numerous times. Your
solution is basically the best one that I've seen offered.
I believe there are also some autoconf macros to help out.
See the autoconf list archives, and
http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/
-Steve
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