Re: How to reflect variables like "sysconfdir" in an executable.

[Hans Deragon]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
> > Thanks.  It almost works.  The problem is that it substitute "@datadir@" with
> > "${prefix}/share".  That is not right.  ${prefix} must be expanded.  Python
> > does not understand ${prefix}.  Any suggestions?  In should be something like
> > "/usr/share" in my script.
>
>
> Do something like
>
> eval "eval DATA_DIR=$datadir"
> AC_SUBST(DATA_DIR)
>
> and then use
>
> @DATA_DIR@
>
> Bob
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Bingo.  I confirm that this work.  Thanks.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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