Re: How to specify /var/lib in autoconf?

2009-05-14 Thread David Bruce
Hi, Thanks for your attention to this! >> Ralf, what do you think - is there enough use for $(pkglocalstatedir) to >> make it an automatic part of automake? > > This is the first time I hear of its need.  Is one user enough to > warrant another predefined variable in every Makefile of every packa

Re: How to specify /var/lib in autoconf?

2009-05-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:21:36PM CEST: > [moving to bug-automake] FWIW, moving isn't practical if the original reporter isn't kept in Cc:. > According to Eric Blake on 4/24/2009 9:48 AM: > > David Bruce writes: > > > >>> AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALSTATEDIR=\"$(pkglocalsta

Re: How to specify /var/lib in autoconf?

2009-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [moving to bug-automake] According to Eric Blake on 4/24/2009 9:48 AM: > David Bruce gmail.com> writes: > >>> If you want to refer to the path in C code as a macro "LOCALSTATEDIR", >>> you have in Makefile.am: >>> >>> AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALSTATEDIR=