DESTDIR and pkg-config variables

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:50:46 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> I think the right way to do this is 1) Keep taking the default from
> pkg-config and 2) Pass in a value during distcheck with
> DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS. That'd look something like this:
> 
> configure.ac:
> AC_ARG_WITH([appdefaultdir],
>     [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-appdefaultdir=DIR],
>         [Xt app-defaults directory (default: from pkg-config)])],
>     [appdefaultdir="$withval"],
>     [appdefaultdir=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=appdefaultdir xt`])
> 
> Makefile.am:
> DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --with-appdefaultdir='$${datadir}/X11/app-defaults'
> 
> I just tested that on xfontsel and it works.
> 
IIRC I did exactly that in xdm.

Cheers,
Julien