Re: datadir variable

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Luka Napotnik wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I didn't use autoconf, I loaded images with an absolute path. But
> now I use autoconf and if I do make install, the path is wrong. Now I
> figured out that I need to get the right path with a $datadir variable
> which is in Makefile.in. How do I get that variable into my C program?
>
> greets,
> Luka Napotnik
just add some lines to your Makefile.am like these:
INCLUDES = \
        -I srcdir@ \
        -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" \
        -DLIBDIR=\"$(libdir)\" \
        -DDATADIR=\"$(datadir)/buzztard\"

These make defines named LOCALEDIR, LIBDIR, DATADIR available to your source.

Stefan