Re: replacement of variable placeholders in files

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

> On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Jason Curl wrote:
>>>
>>> project.conf:project.conf.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
>>> $(SED) -e 'address@hidden/@'"${localstatedir}/@g" 
>>> $(top_srcdir)/conf/project.conf.in > $@

This is all explained in
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Defining-Directories.html>
and references therein.  Why directory variables are defined the way
they are should be answered by the GNU Coding Standards which are two
clicks away from the above link.

I would really like it if remaining open questions were gathered so they
could be answered comprehensively, so next time we can just point to the
answer.

Cheers,
Ralf