Hello, I hope someone here will be able to help me.
I'm developping a middle-scale library that uses autoconf and automake. This library comes along with some demo and test programs. Those demo and test programs now require some input files in order to run. Those input files also have to be distributed with the package. I actually tried to put those input data files into the header directory and I also wondered if I could put them into the share subdirectory. The problem I'm facing is this one: The test programs will have to read those data, but I actually can't know where those input data are stored (it is top_srcdir/include) but it is somewhat impossible from what I know to give that directory to C/C++ file functions. Of course, I can code that in the hard way. But that will work as long as the project is not installed. But once installed (on any uknown machine), I really can't know where to find those input files. If they are installed in the include subdirectory, then I can have a look at /usr/include, or it might be /usr/local/include, or whatever directory a final user would have put to configure. It is the same thing if I put those data in the share subdirectory. Does anyone has an advice, a hint, or a solution for me ? Thanks
