- From: Bernd Porr <BerndPorr_at_f2s.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:58:30 +0100
> Well, the default paths that autoconf comes up with never made much sense
> to me. In this particular case, it seems like we would want to install
> the docs into something like ${datadir}/doc/comedilib and the usb firmware
> into ${datadir}/usb. When configuring for a debian package, datadir would
> be set to /usr/share (or the prefix to /usr which seems mostly right
> except for the sysconfdir).
Makes perfectly sense. I'll set up a variable for the docpath like:
doccomedilibdir="\${datadir}/doc/comedilib"
AC_SUBST(doccomedilibdir)
and adjust the Makefile.am in the subdirs. This should solve the problem.
/Bernd
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Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 09:17 pm, Bernd Porr wrote:
>
>>To detangle the data directory I suggest the following:
>>
>>configure.ac:
>>
>>#place all shared stuff in here
>>sharedcomedidir="\${datadir}/libcomedi0"
>>AC_SUBST(sharedcomedidir)
>>
>>
>
>
> Well, the default paths that autoconf comes up with never made much sense
> to me. In this particular case, it seems like we would want to install
> the docs into something like ${datadir}/doc/comedilib and the usb firmware
> into ${datadir}/usb. When configuring for a debian package, datadir would
> be set to /usr/share (or the prefix to /usr which seems mostly right
> except for the sysconfdir).
>
Received on 2005-06-01Z06:58:30