Re: Using $bindir in configure.ac

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:43:48AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>>You are right, $bindir is the directory is going to be installed in.
>>However strange, I do have a reason for wanting to use it in my
>>configure.ac.
>>
>>We have a set of related projects, they should all be installed in the
>>same locations. The executable I need AC_PATH_PROGRAM to find is
>>installed by one of the projects, and needed in building several of the
>>other projects. I thought it would be nice to not force the user to
>>modify $PATH before building by adding $bindir to the path that's
>>searched by AC_PATH_PROGRAM.
>
>#
># Evaluate shell variable equivalents to Makefile directory variables
>#
>if test "x$prefix" = xNONE
>then
>  prefix=$ac_default_prefix
>fi
># Let make expand exec_prefix.
>if test "x$exec_prefix" = xNONE
>then
>  exec_prefix='${prefix}'
>fi
>
>#
>eval "eval PREFIX_DIR=${prefix}"
>AC_SUBST(PREFIX_DIR)
>eval "eval EXEC_PREFIX_DIR=${exec_prefix}"
>AC_SUBST(EXEC_PREFIX_DIR)
>eval "eval BIN_DIR=$bindir"
>AC_SUBST(BIN_DIR)
>eval "eval SBIN_DIR=$sbindir"
>AC_SUBST(SBIN_DIR)
>eval "eval LIBEXEC_DIR=$libexecdir"
>AC_SUBST(LIBEXEC_DIR)
>eval "eval DATA_DIR=$datadir"
>AC_SUBST(DATA_DIR)
>eval "eval SYSCONF_DIR=$sysconfdir"
>AC_SUBST(SYSCONF_DIR)
>eval "eval SHAREDSTATE_DIR=$sharedstatedir"
>AC_SUBST(SHAREDSTATE_DIR)
>eval "eval LOCALSTATE_DIR=$localstatedir"
>AC_SUBST(LOCALSTATE_DIR)
>eval "eval LIB_DIR=$libdir"
>AC_SUBST(LIB_DIR)
>eval "eval INCLUDE_DIR=$includedir"
>AC_SUBST(INCLUDE_DIR)
>eval "eval OLDINCLUDE_DIR=$oldincludedir"
>AC_SUBST(OLDINCLUDE_DIR)
>eval "eval INFO_DIR=$infodir"
>AC_SUBST(INFO_DIR)
>eval "eval MAN_DIR=$mandir"
>AC_SUBST(MAN_DIR)

Thanks.

Seeing this made me remember the autoconf macro archive, and I found the
following there:

 http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/ac_define_dir.html

/M

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