making config files

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi,

I've been working on a project, Ganglia, that is built with autotools

Included in the source tree are templates for various configuration 
files (e.g. modpython.conf.in).  Some of these include hard coded paths.

It seems appropriate to replace the hardcoded paths with substitutions 
(e.g. @sysconfdir@) - however, if the template is processed by 
configure, then the generated config file sometimes includes a value 
like ${prefix}/etc rather than an absolute path like /opt/ganglia-3.1/etc

Therefore, I felt that I should be aiming to have the config files 
generated at the last moment - probably during `make install', just 
before they are installed.  Can anyone suggest best practice for doing this?

Regards,

Daniel