Re: Automake and directories

Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:29:03 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.midgard.devel
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Hi,

On 2/17/06, Piotras <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure I follow you. This should returns constant defined in header.
> Why function ten?

It's a difference between compile- and runtime configuration. For
example if I first install midgard from standard binary packages, but
would then want to compile a new version of the midgard-core library
using custom directory paths. Now midgard-core would use the custom
paths, but the higher level components would continue using the
standard paths. Using a function guarantees that all components will
always use the same locations.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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