Re: Using $bindir in configure.ac

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:30:34PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>  AC_PROGRAM([MY_PROGR], [mypr], [no], [$bindir:$PATH])
> 
> but it doesn't seem to work. $bindir is expanded to ${exec_prefix}/bin,
> on top of that it seems $exec_prefix still is NONE (i.e. a double
> expansion, if I could even trigger it, wouldn't suffice) since I only
> use --prefix on the command line. Any suggestions?

I believe the double expansion is the way to go.

I invented the following:

bindir_path=`eval "case $prefix$exec_prefix in \
        NONENONE) exec_prefix=$ac_default_prefix;; \
        *NONE) exec_prefix=$prefix;;esac;  echo $bindir"`
AC_PROGRAM([MY_PROGR], [mypr], [no], [$bindir_path:$PATH])

Of course, many other solutions are possible, you can use sed, for example.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal