Re: Manual substitution (was: Default for libexecdir)

[Andreas Schwab]

Bill Moseley <address@hidden> writes:

|> Well, this is what I'm using in a Makefile.am:
|> 
|> CLEANFILES = swish.cgi
|> swish.cgi: swish.cgi.in
|>         @rm -f swish.cgi
|>         @sed \
|>                 -e 's,@@perlmoduledir@@,$(libexecdir)/perl,' \
|>                 -e 's,@@swishbindir@@,$(bindir),' \
|>                 -e 's,@@perlbinary@@,$(PERL),' \
|>                          $(srcdir)/swish.cgi.in > swish.cgi
|> 
|> Is there a better way to do those substitutions?

That looks ok.

|> I can't use @bindir@
|> directly as it gets replaced in the Makefile generation, of course.

You can, you just have to spell it differently, like
sed -e 's,@''bindir@,$(bindir),'.

Andreas.

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