Hi Eric,
> > In Makefile.am add:
> >
> > localedir = @localedir@
This is probably not needed at all; the AC_SUBST invocation causes this line
to be added to every Makefile.in generated from a Makefile.am automatically.
> > In configure.ac add:
> >
> > dnl Installation directories.
> > dnl Remove this when you can assume autoconf >= 2.60.
> > AC_SUBST([localedir], ['${datadir}/locale'])
This is the essential change.
> But the Makefile.am in question is generated by gnulib. Adding it to
> the top level won't affect the generation of configmake.h.
Then you could use gnulib-tool's option --makefile-name and include the
gnulib-generated Makefile.am fragment from your real Makefile.am.
> # Listed in the same order as the GNU makefile conventions.
> # The Automake-defined pkg* macros are appended, in the order
> # listed in the Automake 1.10a+ documentation.
> +# Support newer definitions even when using older automake 1.9.6
The Automake version is probably irrelevant here. It's the Autoconf
version that matters.
> configmake.h: Makefile
> $(AM_V_GEN)rm -f $...@-t && \
> { echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; \
> @@ -35,6 +36,9 @@ configmake.h: Makefile
> echo '#define LIBEXECDIR "$(libexecdir)"'; \
> echo '#define DATAROOTDIR "$(datarootdir)"'; \
> echo '#define DATADIR "$(datadir)"'; \
> + echo '#ifndef DATAROOTDIR'; \
> + echo '# define DATAROOTDIR DATADIR'; \
> + echo '#endif; \
> echo '#define SYSCONFDIR "$(sysconfdir)"'; \
> echo '#define SHAREDSTATEDIR "$(sharedstatedir)"'; \
> echo '#define LOCALSTATEDIR "$(localstatedir)"'; \
I would prefer to do this at configure.ac level. Because if a package has
C code which accesses DATAROOTDIR or LOCALEDIR, chances are high that it
also has Makefile rules that install files into $(datarootdir) or $(localedir).
The change that you propose handles the C code but not the Makefile.am rules.
Bruno
