Re: including autoconf paths in source

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Thursday 2008-12-11 21:38, Monty Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there is a best practice for getting paths such as
> > locaeldir or datadir into source code. As it stands now in the Makefile
> > I've got:
> >
> > prefix= /usr/local
> > datarootdir= ${prefix}/share
> > localedir = ${datarootdir}/locale
> >
> > To get localedir into a source file, I've got a section in Makefile.am like:
> >
> > DEFS = -DLOCALEDIR="\"$(localedir)\"" @DEFS@
>
> This is the preferred solution indeed. Not that I see a need for @DEFS@
> though:

One of the problems with the "preferred solution" is that it's not trivial
to pass the flags through a script (for example, a wrapper for a 
compiler, or test-application).  Putting them in the generated config.h
doesn't run into that problem.

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