* Alberto Luaces wrote on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:37:33PM CEST: > I wrote a program that uses data files at runtime. I store them in > $pkgdatadir, and it works fine. > > Sometimes I want to execute the program without installing it.
I prefer to do this without any recompiling or reconfiguring of the code. For example, by having a dedicated environment variable or command line argument that overrides the pkgdatadir value that has been compiled into the program. Rationale: I'd like to test, as much as possible, the exact same code that is later being installed. The Autoconf package itself does it this way, too: the tools wrappers in the tests/ directory (generated from tests/wrappers.as) set autom4te_perllibdir and a few other variables, and use -B aka. --prepend-include. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
