Re: Portable method to change sysconfdir

[Jason Curl]

Stephen Torri wrote:
> I am looking for a portable method that will allow me to change the
> location of files installed into the sysconfir ($prefix/etc). Right now
> my Makefile.am contains:
>
> dist_sysconf_DATA = \
>         db_config.xml \
>         file_config.xml \
>         memory_config.xml
>
> I want to install them to a named sub-directory in $prefix/etc. Also I
> would like to have a entry made into config.h giving this location as
> well or a flag used by the preprocessor. This way the program knows
> where the default directory is to start looking for the configuration
> files.
>   
I've had a similar question:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-06/msg00003.html

There are a couple ways of doing it, I was convinced to define
 AM_CFLAGS = -DSYSCONFDIR=\"$(sysconfdir)\"
in the Makefile.am. Then my code uses that define. It never made it into 
config.h



> Stephen
>