Hello, please don't top-post on this list; thanks.
* dage...@free.fr wrote on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:06:01PM CET: > > I'm developping a middle-scale library that uses autoconf and > automake. This library comes along with some demo and test programs. > Those demo and test programs now require some input files in order to > run. Those input files also have to be distributed with the package. I > actually tried to put those input data files into the header directory > and I also wondered if I could put them into the share subdirectory. You should definitely not put files other than header files into $(includedir), if that's what you mean. See here for the meaning of the directory variables: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Installation-Directory-Variables.html> > The test programs will have to read those data, but I actually can't > know where those input data are stored (it is top_srcdir/include) but > it is somewhat impossible from what I know to give that directory to > C/C++ file functions. Of course, I can code that in the hard way. But > that will work as long as the project is not installed. But once > installed (on any uknown machine), I really can't know where to find > those input files. If they are installed in the include subdirectory, > then I can have a look at /usr/include, or it might be > /usr/local/include, or whatever directory a final user would have put > to configure. It is the same thing if I put those data in the share > subdirectory. This FAQ entry contains some information about this issue: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Defining-Directories.html> Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
