* Perry Hutchison: > That being the case, what would be the use of capturing -- into a C > header file, which is only used when building -- a variable setting > passed to "make install"? See the start of the thread. Assuming one has to hard-code installation locations (let's not get into a debate about that), one may have to build the expansion of @bindir@ into the binary. But that is usually defined as ${exec_prefix}/bin, so something direct like #define BINDIR "@bindir@" does not work as expected. Thanks, Florian