David Bruce wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to start modifying my program (Tux Typing) so as to allow
creation of custom word lists. The gist is that I need to have
modifiable files that are visible to all users. I have been told by
knowledgable people that the appropriate location for these files
would be /var/lib/tuxtype, similar to where databases place their
files. (I presume /var/lib/tuxtype is correct if prefix is /usr, but
it would be /var/local/tuxtype with the default prefix /usr/local?).
Anyway, how do I specify this in an autotools-based program? The
closest predefined variable seems to be "localstatedir", but the
autoconf manual says it is "$prefix/var." My Debian system doesn't
have either "/usr/var" or "/usr/local/var". Any suggestions?
If you want to refer to the path in C code as a macro "LOCALSTATEDIR",
you have in Makefile.am:
AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALSTATEDIR=\"$(pkglocalstatedir)\"
Also in Makefile.am, you need this to install data:
dist_pkglocalstate_DATA = <path_to_tux_state_data>
If there's no data to install but you just need the directory created,
i think you need:
install-data-hook:
$(install_sh) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(pkglocalstatedir)
uninstall-hook:
rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(pkglocalstatedir)
Autoconf stuff is all too vague to figure out from the manual. A lot
of things are figured out by the errors given by "make distcheck",
and looking through the generated Makefile.in and Makefile.
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