Whats the desired or recommended way to handle setting a bunch of
variables which will turn into defines in a makefile as well as strings in
some documentation and some X11 application default settings?
I was thinking of putting stuff like this in configure.ac:
FOO=${FOO:-some_default}
AC_SUBST(FOO)
BAR=${BAR:-"another default"}
AC_SUBST(BAR)
and then in Makefiel.am, things like
baz_INCLUDES= -DBAR=@BAR@
and in baz.ad.in
Bax.something: @BAR@
Bax.somethingelse: @FOO@
and in docs.texi.in
blah blah blah, the default is @FOO@.
Is there a better way of doing this? I doubt that users will want to
override these defaults, but you never know. Mostly i want to keep the
compiled code, the app default, and the docs consistent.
thanks
-Dan
