>>>>> "GD" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GD> 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.
>>
GD> http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html
GD> There are a lot of things that people have done often and
GD> which have been memorized in the ac-archive. If you make up
GD> your own ac-macros, just send them to me :-)
Thank you for all the responses. It's just wonderful :)
I chose the Guido's macro (thanks!) but liked other solutions too.
Viktor
