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--- Begin Message ---Package: autoconf Version: 2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1 Severity: important If configure.in uses ${datadir} for some reason this version of autoconf tries to replace it with ${datarootdir}, the variable doesn't get replaced (strace proves this). Downgrading to version 2.59a-9 resolves this. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.4-1 a macro processing language ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages autoconf recommends: ii automake1.7 [automaken] 1.7.9-7 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.9 [automaken] 1.9.6-4 A tool for generating GNU Standard -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---As Ralf points out, the following code in the configure.in in question does not follow the guidelines in the Autoconf documentation. | dnl Set PACKAGE_DATA_DIR in config.h. | if test "x${datadir}" = 'x${prefix}/share'; then | if test "x${prefix}" = "xNONE"; then | AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE_DATA_DIR, "${ac_default_prefix}/share/${PACKAGE}", [Shared Data Directory] ) | else | AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE_DATA_DIR, "${prefix}/share/${PACKAGE}", [Shared Data Directory]) | fi | else | AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE_DATA_DIR, "${datadir}/${PACKAGE}", [Shared Data Directory]) | fi Here is the particular recommendation from the documentation that this violates. Because this is a bug in configure.in, not in Autoconf, I am closing this bug. How Do I `#define' Installation Directories? ============================================ My program needs library files, installed in `datadir' and similar. If I use AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DATADIR], [$datadir], [Define to the read-only architecture-independent data directory.]) I get #define DATADIR "${prefix}/share" As already explained, this behavior is on purpose, mandated by the GNU Coding Standards, see *Note Installation Directory Variables::. There are several means to achieve a similar goal: - Do not use `AC_DEFINE' but use your `Makefile' to pass the actual value of `datadir' via compilation flags, see *Note Installation Directory Variables::, for the details. - This solution can be simplified when compiling a program: you may either extend the `CPPFLAGS': CPPFLAGS = -DDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\" @CPPFLAGS@ or create a dedicated header file: DISTCLEANFILES = datadir.h datadir.h: Makefile echo '#define DATADIR "$(datadir)"' >$@ - Use `AC_DEFINE' but have `configure' compute the literal value of `datadir' and others. Many people have wrapped macros to automate this task. For instance, the macro `AC_DEFINE_DIR' from the Autoconf Macro Archive(1). This solution does not conform to the GNU Coding Standards. - Note that all the previous solutions hard wire the absolute path to these directories in the executables, which is not a good property. You may try to compute the paths relatively to `prefix', and try to find `prefix' at runtime, this way your package is relocatable. Some macros are already available to address this issue: see `adl_COMPUTE_RELATIVE_PATHS' and `adl_COMPUTE_STANDARD_RELATIVE_PATHS' on the Autoconf Macro Archive(2). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Autoconf Macro Archive, <http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/>. (2) Autoconf Macro Archive, <http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/>. -- "In this world that Hugh Heffner had made, he alone seemed forever bunnyless." --John D. MacDonald
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