non-Makefiles and configure

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 8:33 pm, you wrote:
> > Can I add
> > src/backend/qsf/qsf-dir.h
>
> In fact there is no doc/build-system, but there is doc/README.build-system.

Aha!

> After reading this, well, I'm sorry for being a bit harsh to you about the
> Makefile/configure issue.

No problem.

> The point now is: Does the header file in question contain only variables
> that are completely defined in configure.in?

No:
QSF_SCHEMA_DIR=`eval echo $datadir`"/xml/qof/qsf"

> Or does it contain paths 
> relative to $prefix?

$datadir is relative to prefix, yes. (it's share/).

> If the former, then AC_OUTPUT probably is the cleaner 
> solution. If the latter, then in contrast to my previous argument things
> should just stay as they are. Sorry for that.

Absolutely no problem.

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