Hello, Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> writes:
> What is the best way to debug a program which uses some data files, > while the program is not yet installed? > > For example I have data/classes.ttl to be installed into > /usr/local/share/boiler/classes.ttl > > How can I make my program to use this classes.ttl while it is not yet > installed? > > Maybe, I should lookup in current directory? But that's insecure. Maybe > I should lookup in current directory only in maintainer mode? I would recommend using environment variables to override the default installed directories. To run you program from build directory can then use a wrapper script that sets those environment variables appropriately and call your progam this script can be used for running tests too. As an example you can see the 'pre-inst-env' script of Automake [1] which is generated at configure time. HTH, -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/pre-inst-env.in
