mcmahill> I tried something like this in my configure.ac file:
mcmahill> MYDIR=${datadir}/foo
mcmahill> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MYDIR,"$MYDIR",[default search directory for foo]
Please, read the documentation, in particular the end of the following
section.
Installation Directory Variables
--------------------------------
The following variables specify the directories where the package
will be installed, see *Note Variables for Installation Directories:
(standards)Directory Variables, for more information. See the end of
this section for details on when and how to use these variables.
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