[LC++]changing the source depending on a value in the configure script

[alain]

Le sam 10/01/2004 à 16:42, Chris Vine a écrit :
> Autoconf provides a prefix variable for you.  Just test the value of $prefix 
> (note though that I expect you should really be using the datadir variable, 
> also provided by autoconf).
> 
> I have no idea where .qm files go, or what they are, but if you are not using 
> automake, you can include something like this in your aclocal.m4 file:
> 
>   QMDIR="/usr/local/share/qm"
>   if test -n "$datadir" && test "$datadir" != "NONE"; then
>     QMDIR="$datadir/qm"
>   fi
> 
> and then export it in your Makefile.in file with something like:
> 
>   QMDIR=@QMDIR@
> 
> and then pass that as a definition using the g++ -D flag.
> 
> If you are using automake all this is handled for you.  You just need 
> something like:
> 
>   qmdir = $(datadir)/qm
>   INCLUDES = -DQMDIR=\"$(qmdir)\"
> 
> in your Makefile.am file.  QMDIR will then appear as a standard C preprocessor 
> macro definition which you can use in the usual way.

Your explanations are quite like a tutorial.
Thanks a lot,
-- 
alain <alainbe at free.fr>