Es schrieb Viktor Pavlenko: > > Hello, > > I would like my program to know where it has been installed, in > particular, the location of $datadir. Looks like a natural way to do > it is to have a #define in config.h, like this: > > /* > * myprog data directory > */ > #define MYPROG_DATA_DIR "/usr/local/share/myprog" > > I tried the following in configure.in: > > AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MYPROG_DATA_DIR,$datadir,[myprog data directory]) > > but it doesn't work ($prefix/share is inserted and not expanded). I > would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to do this properly. >
http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html There are a lot of things that people have done often and which have been memorized in the ac-archive. If you make up your own ac-macros, just send them to me :-)
