>>> "Viktor" == Viktor Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Viktor> I tried the following in configure.in: Viktor> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MYPROG_DATA_DIR,$datadir,[myprog data directory]) Viktor> but it doesn't work ($prefix/share is inserted and not expanded). I Viktor> would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to do this properly. Here is yet another different answer, so you can't say you don't have the choice :) I've stopped hard-coding absolute paths in my package because it hinders relocation of binary packages. Instead, at configure-time (not everybody will like this) I turn each pathname into a path relative to $(prefix), and guess $(prefix) at run-time. See the following macros http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/relpath.html http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/normpath.html and http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/stdrelpaths.html for an example. (Obviously there are situation wheres computing relative paths is not always possible -- think A:\foo C:\bar -- but I can live with that.) -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
