From 71371cf6ae875ea86c3004beed6935fd35849e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:35:54 +0100 Subject: docs: mention configmake module for defining directories. * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Directories): Mention configmake gnulib module. Suggestion by Karl Berry and Eric Blake. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/autoconf.texi | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4a271f8f..bca9909e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues + + docs: mention configmake module for defining directories. + * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Directories): Mention configmake + gnulib module. + Suggestion by Karl Berry and Eric Blake. + 2011-01-04 Eric Blake doc: improve install.texi texinfo markup diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 1e9fb422..be1ef5b0 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -24943,6 +24943,10 @@ myprog-paths.h: Makefile echo '#define DATADIR "$(datadir)"' >$@@ @end example +@noindent +The gnulib module @samp{configmake} provides such a header with all the +standard directory variables defined, @pxref{Gnulib}. + @item Use @code{AC_DEFINE} but have @command{configure} compute the literal value of @code{datadir} and others. Many people have wrapped macros to -- cgit v1.2.1