Re: Getting the 'sysconfdir'

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:04:04PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote:
> From previous posts to automake, it appears the best way to manage my 
> configuration files is using $(sysconfdir)
> 
> So in my configure.ac I have the following that my program can use to 
> find out where the configuration directory was configured to pull in the 
> default when the user doesn't provide an alternative.
> 
>   AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTE(SYSCONFDIR, [$sysconfdir], [Configuration directory])
> 
> What doesn't work, $sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc as default. This means I 
> need to recursively substitute until I have a complete path. How can I 
> do this?

See `info Autoconf FAQ defining' for some ways to handle this.