<p>I'm working on a project that will be distributed with GNU autoconf/automake, and I have a set of bash scripts which call awk scripts.  I would like the bash scripts to end up in the $PATH, but not the awk scripts.  How should I insert these into the project?  Should they be put in with other binaries?</p>

<p>Also, is there a way to determine the final location of the file after installation?  I presume that /usr/local/bin isn't <em>always</em> where the executables end up...</p>

Add something like this to Makefile.am
```
```
scriptsdir = $(prefix)/bin
scripts_DATA = awkscript1 awkscript2
```
```
In this case it will install awkscript in $(prefix)/bin (you can also use $(bindir)).
Note: Dont forget that the first should be named name + dir (scripts -> scriptsdir) and the second should be name + _DATA (scripts -> scripts_DATA).