[Gllug] automake/autoconf

[Stig Brautaset]

* Stig Brautaset <stigbrau at start.no> spake thus:
> * Stig Brautaset <stigbrau at start.no> spake thus:
>> * Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> spake thus:
>>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Stig Brautaset mused:
>>>> I have been trying to use automake/autoconf for my program. I don't
>>>> want to put data files/ config files in hardcoded paths. I thought
>>>> it would be natural to have a macro that defined the standard data
>>>> directory for the install so I could use this.
>>> 
>>> Yes, and it's called, um, `datadir' ;}. It's ${prefix}/share by
>>> default, but site-config files may change it: your configure.in
>>> should not, and while it may consult it, it should (as with all
>>> these path variables) put off expansion as long as possible, so that
>>> `make install datadir=...' works.
>> 
>> ACK, I evidently failed to communicate my problem.
> 
> This is what I want:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html

OK, I've now found a solution to this problem.

I've managed to beat the macro listed in the link above into submission.
A very kind person on IRC (in #offtopic on irc.openprojects.net) gave me
a hand in figuring out this problem. Glad I was to get help too, Alas!
I spent the whole day Tuesday researching how to achieve its purpose.
Only five minutes before I was kicked out from the library my friend in
need came to the rescue, he had found a solution to the problem! 

Unfortunately, due to its lateness, I did not have time to communicate
my success to this list. Thus some of you may have wasted your time
trying to help a poor sod, who is not actually in need anymore (in this
field at least ;) Thank you anyway.

Oh, and the solution, you ask? It seems the 'optional' third argument of
that macro is not optional after all; it *requires* a comment. Don't you
just love faulty documentation.

Stig, 

A bit dramatic of late, owing to his n-th feeble attempt at reading
Paradise Lost. 

Evil be thou, Milton, 
Thy fair words seducing
This simple mind; egging,
Nay, spurring me to emulate
Thy words, as where they mine.

-- apologies to John Milton


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