Re: cascading variable resolution in AC_SUBST

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

David Oleszkiewicz <address@hidden> writes:

> so i want to do something like this
> 
> configure.in:
> PROGNAME = "foo"
> DIR = "${bindir}/${PROG}"
> AC_SUBST(DIR)
> 
> myfile.h.in:
> #define DIR "@DIR@"
> 
> when things resolve out to myfile.h i get
> #define CONF_DIR "${exec_prefix}/foo"

Look at the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive for 'AC_DEFINE_DIR'.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html

(This'll put the define in your config.h, though.)

- Hari
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