Re: Baked-in paths

[Martin Kalbfuß]

Am Sonntag, den 14.03.2010, 22:29 +0000 schrieb Reuben Thomas:
> 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?
> 

set the install prefix to a sub directory of your build directory, This
way you can test your application, using the datadir path, without
installing it into the system.