Re: $sysconfdir substitution

[Kip Warner]

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 17:05 +1000, Peter Johansson wrote:
> Hi Kip,
> 
> I have the following rule in my Makefile.am to generate a C header
> file.
> 
> configmake.h: Makefile
>      $(AM_V_GEN)echo '#define BINDIR "$(bindir)"' > $@
> 
> You could have a similar rule to generate a file suitable to source
> into 
> your script.

Hey Peter,

That looks good, but I really like the AC_CONFIG_FILES approach because
I think it looks cleaner. If I went your method it would be similar,
but I'd probably use sed instead.

What I ended up coming up with seems to work, albeit it is a bit ugly.

    SYSCONFDIR=`test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=$ac_default_prefix; eval echo 
"${sysconfdir}"`
    AC_SUBST([sysconfdir], [$SYSCONFDIR])
    AC_CONFIG_FILES([myfile])

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