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.
