Hello,
My configure.in has the following snippet:
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PKGDATADIR=`eval echo "${datadir}/$PACKAGE"`
AC_SUBST(PKGDATADIR)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CONFIG_DATA_DIR, "$PKGDATADIR",
[The directory where our data will be installed])
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With automake-1.7 it properly expanded. With automake-1.9, my config.h
has the following in it:
#define CONFIG_DATA_DIR "${prefix}/share/celestia"
I know the autoconf manual says:
"A corollary is that you should not use these variables except in
Makefiles. For instance, instead of trying to evaluate datadir in
`configure' and hard-coding it in Makefiles using e.g.,
`AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DATADIR, "$datadir")', you should add
`-DDATADIR="$(datadir)"' to your CPPFLAGS."
But is that really the best solution?
Also, is the following still in any way relevant?:
if (test "$prefix" = "NONE"); then
prefix=$ac_default_prefix
fi
It seems the $prefix is generally set to a sane default value.
Thanks!
--Pat
