adjust various data/library paths automatically if we are run from a build tree

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/daemon/daemon-conf.c b/src/daemon/daemon-conf.c
index 9a87b555..ec1ec5ce 100644
--- a/src/daemon/daemon-conf.c
+++ b/src/daemon/daemon-conf.c
@@ -133,9 +133,25 @@ static const pa_daemon_conf default_conf = {
 };
 
 pa_daemon_conf* pa_daemon_conf_new(void) {
-    pa_daemon_conf *c = pa_xnewdup(pa_daemon_conf, &default_conf, 1);
+    pa_daemon_conf *c;
+
+    c = pa_xnewdup(pa_daemon_conf, &default_conf, 1);
+
+#if defined(__linux__) && !defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
+
+    /* We abuse __OPTIMIZE__ as a check whether we are a debug build
+     * or not. If we are and are run from the build tree then we
+     * override the search path to point to our build tree */
+
+    if (pa_run_from_build_tree()) {
+        pa_log_notice("Detected that we are run from the build tree, fixing search path.");
+        c->dl_search_path = pa_xstrdup(PA_BUILDDIR "/.libs/");
+
+    } else
+
+#endif
+        c->dl_search_path = pa_xstrdup(PA_DLSEARCHPATH);
 
-    c->dl_search_path = pa_xstrdup(PA_DLSEARCHPATH);
     return c;
 }