Re: [gnome-love] At last... I made it...

["Daniel C. Casimiro" <dcasimiro cox net>]

I think that this should be:

AM_CXXFLAGS=-DDATADIR="\"$(datadir)\"" 
or (the preferred)
bin_CXXFLAGS=-DDATADIR="\"$(datadir)\"" 

That way, you don't stomp on the $CXXFLAGS environment variable set by 
the user.

See the automake manual for more info
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_mono/automake.html.gz#Program%20variables

~dan

> In  your Makefile.am, put this in:
>
> CXXFLAGS=-DDATADIR="\"$(datadir)\""
>
> CXXFLAGS is a variable used during compilation to pass additional
> command-line options to the compiler.  The -D option defines a new macro
> (as if you had used a #define directive at the top of your source
> file).  In this case, it's defining a macro named DATADIR and setting it
> equal to "$(datadir)", which would be fully expanded to something like
> /usr/local/share.  So then your app can simply have this:
>
>
>