config.h vs. -D (fwd)

[Benjamin Sailer]

Hello again,

> 
> <snip configure.in>
> MY_CONFIG_FILE="@datadir@/my_config_file"
> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([MY_CONFIG_FILE], "$MY_CONFIG_FILE",
> [default configuration file])
> <snip>
> 

> what an i doing wrong?  I'm using
> 

sorry, i found it after all in the mailinglist's archive:
@datadir@ seems to be the wrong way at all.  I tried

<snip configure.in>
MY_CONFIG_FILE=`eval echo ${datadir}/my_config_file`
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([MY_CONFIG_FILE], "$MY_CONFIG_FILE",
[default configuration file])
<snip>

and it seems to work fine both with and without config.h

Benjamin

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