I've used Autotools in a few small projects before, but nothing which
required auxiliary files to support the binaries. Typically, I've seen
these auxiliary files stored in /usr/share/package-version/, and would
like to do the same thing for my own package via Autotools.
I'm able to get /usr/share (or, more accurately I guess, $PREFIX/share)
just by using ${datadir} in my Makefile.am. However, I can't shake the
feeling that (a) this is the wrong way to do it, and (b) if I hardwire
paths that way I'll be stuck maintaining my error for quite some time to
come.
So, my questions:
1. What's the correct way to do this? I'm assuming there's some
configure.ac and Makefile.am changes which need to be made, but
I'm not sure which.
2. How can I make dist_data_DATA install to this directory? (If I
should be using a different target, please say so!)
3. How can I, programmatically within my C code, find the dirs in
which my auxiliary files have been placed?
I apologize for the elementary question, but Google has been pretty much
no help, and studying how other projects have done it has been less than
informative. :(
