[SEToolkit-developer] autoconf and pathes

[Dagobert M. <da...@ba...>]

Hi,

I am trying to resolve some autoconf-issues here but struggle
to get this right. There are lots of pathes hardcoded in the
sources like this from zoom.se:

#define ZOOM_ICON       "%s/share/se/examples/data/zoom"
#define CPU_ICON        "%s/share/se/examples/data/cpu"
#define DISK_ICON       "%s/share/se/examples/data/disk"
#define MUTEX_ICON      "%s/share/se/examples/data/mutex"

As I figured out this can be done by renaming this to zoom.se.in
and add this to AC_CONFIG_FILES at configure.ac. The variable is
called 'examplesdatadir' and is defined in Makefile.am, which is
unknown at configure-time. So I assume these pathes must be
defined in configure.ac. The following snippet was made after
some looking at how orca does this:

AC_ARG_WITH(se-include-dir,
   [  --with-se-include-dir=3DDIR     where the SE includes are stored =20=

[[pkgdatadir/include]]],
   [ case "$withval" in
       "" | y | ye | yes | n | no)
          AC_MSG_ERROR([*** You must supply an argument to the --with-=20=

se-include-dir option.])
          ;;
       *) SE_INCLUDE_DIR=3D"$withval"
          ;;
     esac
   ],
   : ${SE_INCLUDE_DIR=3D$pkgdatadir/include}
)
VAR_DIR=3D`(
     test "x$prefix" =3D xNONE && prefix=3D$ac_default_prefix
     test "x$exec_prefix" =3D xNONE && exec_prefix=3D${prefix}
     eval echo "$SE_INCLUDE_DIR"
)`
AC_SUBST(SE_INCLUDE_DIR)

Again, pkgdatadir is defined in the Makefile. Is there a way of doing =20=

this
without moving all the pathes to configure.ac?


Best regards

   -- Dago

PS: If you have any test-cases ready I'd be happy to commit them.

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