Re: Forcing complete expansion of a PATH variable

[Guido Draheim]

you need to eval/echo like in...

http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html
http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_subst_dir.html

Joshua Kwan schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> My program has something like this in configure.in:
>
> AC_ARG_WITH(musicpath,
>         AC_HELP_STRING([--with-musicpath], [Path to install music files
>         to (default: DATADIR/tetriword/music)]),
>                 musicpath=$withval,
>                 musicpath=${datadir}/${PACKAGE}/music)
>
> So musicpath will default to ${datadir}/${PACKAGE}/music. This is good!
>
> But later on:
>
> if test $music = yes; then
> echo "Music will be installed in     : $musicpath"
> fi
>
> This prints out:
>
> Music will be installed in     : ${prefix}/share/tetriword/music
>
> Ugh! Is there a non-hacky way that I can force the expansion of that
> ${prefix}?
>
> (please CC me, i'm not subscribed to this list yet)
>
> Regards,
> Josh