>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For automake I use AC_SUBST and have @...@ substitutions in
>> automake.in.
Alex> Cool - actualy I forgot to ask if this is a sane way to do it
Alex> for C. I would much prefer it generated a header file with it
Alex> in somewhere.
A header is a bit cleaner but there are some tricky issues regarding
expansion of the prefix. For instance $(datadir) expands to the text
`$(prefix)/share', which isn't directly usable from C code.
There are various tricks to get around this. One is a -D option in
the Makefile, since the expansion will be handled by make. Another
trick is a macro which will expand a path for you. I think you can
get this from the autoconf macro archive. Maybe it is in the cvs
autoconf already (if not, it should be, since this comes up quite a
bit).
Alex> P.S. Tom Tromey: Thanks for spending the time to write a book on
Alex> automake etc... it's very very usefull.
You're welcome. Thank the other authors too, since they did more work
than me.
Tom
