Mike Frysinger writes: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 07:37:33 Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Is it possible to do what I want? >> >> 1. If pkgdatadir is not specified at configure time, follow the FHS or >> GNU guidelines. >> 2. If pkgdatadir is specified, store its value in the configure cache. > > a lot of people muck around with path vars in configure when they shouldnt. > their code tends to be pretty fragile as they have to check multiple vars and > expand them manually. > > what i do is append the CPPFLAGS in the configure.ac like so: > CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS' -DMY_DATA_PATH="\"$(pkgdatadir)\""' This is a great idea, thank you. I also think that the simpler the configure.ac, the better. Regards, Alberto _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
