Re: [Valgrind-users] hardcoded /usr/bin/gdb

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:00:05PM +0000, Philippe Elie wrote:
> Yes, it's a better way but the trivial:
> 
> AC_PATH_PROG(GDB, gdb)
> AC_DEFINE(GDB_PATH, @GDB@, "gdb path")
> AC_SUBST(GDB)
> 
> doesn't work cause configure don't do subsititution in
> config.h.in when creating config.h, I don't think there is
> any way to put it in config.h.in.

There is - just use this:

AC_PATH_PROG(GDB, gdb)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GDB_PATH, "$GDB", "gdb with path")

Note that you must use AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED instead of AC_DEFINE to get
$GDB expanded before it is substituted - otherwise config.h will
contain:

#define GDB_PATH "$GDB"

Cheers,
    Olly