Re: The place of data files...

[Sever P A <gnu sever gmail com>]

Finally, I resolved it using,

INCLUDES = $(DEPS_CFLAGS) -DDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\"

Thanks to all for the comments,

S.

El 24 / juliol / 2009 06:06, Jonathon Jongsma<jonathon quotidian org>
va escriure:
> José Alburquerque wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:14 +0200, Sever P A wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Actually, I'm packing all my GTKmm project files of a programm that
>>> manages png data files using the autotools and the question is that I
>>> don't reach to understand the tutorial (placed there:
>>> http://bec-systems.com/web/content/view/95/9/) when explains "How does
>>> my program know where $(datadir) is located". Why there is no C/C++
>>> code (while every system can put data files in a different place....)
>>> ?
>>
>> No C/C++ code is needed because AM_CFLAGS is used to tell the compiler
>> to define the DATADIR preprocessor constant to the value of $(datadir)
>> via the -D option (man gcc for more info).  The constant may be used in
>> the source as any constant defined with the '#define' directive would be
>> used.  For example:
>>
>> printf("The data directory is %s\n", DATADIR);
>>
>> I think that for C++, AM_CPPFLAGS does the same as AM_CFLAGS does for C.
>>
>
> that should be CXXFLAGS, not CPPFLAGS (CPP here stands for "C Pre-Processor", I believe)
>
> --
> jonner
>