Re: Baked-in paths

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> I imagine this question has been asked before, but searching the
> archives, the net and the manual didn't help me with the following:
>
> I have a C program which loads some scripts at runtime. These are
> stored in datadir (e.g. /usr/local/share/prog). But I also want to be
> able to run the program from its build directory.
>
> At the moment I bake in the relevant path; I imagine that for "make
> install" I have to rebuild the binary, baking in the installation
> path, having baked the build directory path in a normal "make".
>
> Is there a recommended way to deal with this situation?

I use environment variables to tell the test programs where the source 
directory is.  If the test programs are executed via a test script, 
then the test script can format program arguments appropriately.  If 
you also test using your main installable program, you need to take 
care that any embedded environment variables don't cause a security 
problem.

Bob
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