Hi, Benjamin Sailer <Benjamin.Sailer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello again, > >> >> <snip configure.in> >> MY_CONFIG_FILE="@datadir@/my_config_file" >> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([MY_CONFIG_FILE], "$MY_CONFIG_FILE", >> [default configuration file]) >> <snip> >> > >> what an i doing wrong? I'm using >> > > sorry, i found it after all in the mailinglist's archive: > @datadir@ seems to be the wrong way at all. I tried > > <snip configure.in> > MY_CONFIG_FILE=`eval echo ${datadir}/my_config_file` > AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([MY_CONFIG_FILE], "$MY_CONFIG_FILE", > [default configuration file]) > <snip> > > and it seems to work fine both with and without config.h Actually, that works only if you invoke configure with a --prefix argument. Look at http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/ac_define_dir.html for a possible solution. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@xxxxxxxxxx