[gettext] Re: how does LOCALEDIR get into config.h?

[Bruno Haible]

K. Richard Pixley wrote on 1999-03-13:

>   Notice that with this approach, LOCALEDIR isn`t put into config.h.
>
> And therein lies my subtle complaint.  If I`ve got N configuration
> directories then once again my compile command line is back into the
> multi-hundred characters quickly and config.h is largely pointless.  I
> just had a hard time believing that there were
> autoconf/automake/autoheader macros for gettext yet none for this
> necessary aspect of gettext.

autoconf's purpose is to find out details about the platform.
It is *not* to make command lines short. This is purely an esthetic issue
of yours, not (as you call it) a "necessary aspect of gettext".

The recommended way is as Paul Eggert wrote:

   datadir = @datadir@
   localedir = $(datadir)/locale
   DEFS = -DLOCALEDIR="$(localedir)" @DEFS@

Bruno