On 14 March 2010 22:39, Martin Kalbfuß <ma.kalbf...@web.de> wrote: > 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.
So, are you saying that I cannot test the application without running "make install"? I would prefer to be able to run "make check" in the build directory; if I cannot, then "make distcheck" will not work. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
