Hi everyone, has someone somewhen written some ac-macro to detect the subpaths of a prefixed installation? The idea is to have a moveable package where the compilation prefix path is just the default that can be changed at runtime. hmm, consider a package named 'foo' that has a bin/foo, a lib/libfoo, some shared-files in share/foo/, some docs a.s.o. The compileprefix may be /usr/local, but the user can move the package to somewhere else, thereby setting an environment variable (or a registry key) called FOODIR. Well, currently I can just make an assumption about the subpaths being ./bin, ./lib, ./share/foo a.s.o, however these could have been changed to sth. different during configuration, e.g. let them point all into a subpath ./foo with an overall prefix of /programs. If I look at the current scheme of autoconf/automake, this one is definitly nothing that is supported as a default idea, the bindir, libdir, pkglibdir macros all use the complete path, however, one can still invent a series of other subpath-ac_substs that are detected (!!) from the traditional longpaths. It's just a kind of lengthy pattern recognition, and may be someone has already done it. thanks in advance, -- guido Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut 31:GCS/E/S/P C++$++++ ULHS L++w- N++@ d(+-) s+a- h.r(*@)>+++ y++ 5++X-
