José Alburquerque wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:14 +0200, Sever P A wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Actually, I'm packing all my GTKmm project files of a programm that >> manages png data files using the autotools and the question is that I >> don't reach to understand the tutorial (placed there: >> http://bec-systems.com/web/content/view/95/9/) when explains "How does >> my program know where $(datadir) is located". Why there is no C/C++ >> code (while every system can put data files in a different place....) >> ? > > No C/C++ code is needed because AM_CFLAGS is used to tell the compiler > to define the DATADIR preprocessor constant to the value of $(datadir) > via the -D option (man gcc for more info). The constant may be used in > the source as any constant defined with the '#define' directive would be > used. For example: > > printf("The data directory is %s\n", DATADIR); > > I think that for C++, AM_CPPFLAGS does the same as AM_CFLAGS does for C. >
that should be CXXFLAGS, not CPPFLAGS (CPP here stands for "C Pre-Processor", I believe) -- jonner _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
