On Aug 7, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday, August 06, 2010 20:19:41 Tao Wang wrote: >> Thank you. It works for my C/C++ files. >> However, how it works on text file and script file? They don't have >> compiler to pass the define from parameters. For most scripts, they don't >> accept bash syntax "${prefix}", they do need the value of >> "${prefix}/share". How can I do that? > > typically people dont expand things in such files Or you can add a rule to Makefile.am (or Makefile if you're not using Automake) that performs the substitution with a shell snippet that calls sed - that way ${prefix} is expanded by the shell before passing it to sed. Have a look at how GNU M4 creates its bootstrap script for an example. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary@xxxxxxx) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf