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Re: Caching pkgdatadir in configure
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Alberto Luaces |
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Re: Caching pkgdatadir in configure |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:02:10 +0200 |
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Mike Frysinger writes:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 07:37:33 Alberto Luaces wrote:
>> Is it possible to do what I want?
>>
>> 1. If pkgdatadir is not specified at configure time, follow the FHS or
>> GNU guidelines.
>> 2. If pkgdatadir is specified, store its value in the configure cache.
>
> a lot of people muck around with path vars in configure when they shouldnt.
> their code tends to be pretty fragile as they have to check multiple vars and
> expand them manually.
>
> what i do is append the CPPFLAGS in the configure.ac like so:
> CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS' -DMY_DATA_PATH="\"$(pkgdatadir)\""'
This is a great idea, thank you. I also think that the simpler the configure.ac,
the better.
Regards,
Alberto
Re: Caching pkgdatadir in configure, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/10/15