From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes, that's exactly my question -- how to change the default value of
$(libexecdir). I've tried adding the variable in the configure script as
you suggest:
libexecdir=$(prefix)/lib
and that will set libexecdir, but $(prefix) is undefined so it tries to install in /lib/$(PACKAGE). And that also prevents overriding with --libexecdir option. So that's not going to work.
I believe you want to do this:
libexecdir='${prefix}/lib'
which will carry over unexpanded to your Makefiles, where prefix is given a proper value. That way, someone can do
make install prefix=/some/other/place
and the Right Thing (tm) happens. The Gnu guidelines mandate this, for what it's worth.
I use acconfig.h (generated by autoheader). Can I get $libexecdir (or $(libexecdir)/$(PACKAGE) into acconfig.h so I can use it in my C code? Or should I use @libexecdir@ in something like foo_CPPFLAGS when building foo? Seems like acconfig.h would be a good place to define that.
I don't do Automake, but I'd say you should do neither of the above - you should do something like
foo_CPPFLAGS = '-Dlibexecdir=${libexecdir}'
for the same reason as above - if someone changes prefix or libexecdir at install time via the make command line, your executable is going to have the wrong value hard-coded into it.
- John Burger MITRE
