re: ac_definedir / Re: Sane way of making installation pathsavailable to C ?

[Guido Draheim]

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John Levon schrieb:
> Is there some relatively sane way of making stuff like $bindir path
> available to C programs (via config.h preferably) ? I'm entirely sure
> I'm not the only one who's had to solve this problem a number of times.
>
> Currently we have (hold your bags nearby) :
>
> if test "$prefix" = "NONE"; then
>         prefix="$ac_default_prefix"
> fi
> if test "$exec_prefix" = "NONE"; then
>         exec_prefix="$prefix"
> fi
> if test "$bindir" = "NONE"; then
>         bindir="$prefix/bin"
> fi
> if test "$datadir" = "NONE"; then
>         datadir="$prefix/share"
> fi
> OP_DATADIR=`eval echo "$datadir/$PACKAGE/"`
> OP_BINDIR=`eval echo "$bindir/"`
> AC_SUBST(OP_BINDIR)
> AC_SUBST(OP_DATADIR)
>
> into a version.h file.
>
> regards
> john