Added a slightly hacky fix to make sure `bb` can be run from the local

build directory and still have the helper scripts, bbstartup.sh, and the
bindings work.

3 files changed, 36 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/bb.c b/bb.c
index af06a4d..c6df4e8 100644
--- a/bb.c
+++ b/bb.c
@@ -1187,10 +1187,29 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     sprintf(xdg_data_home, "%s/.local/share", getenv("HOME"));
     setenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", xdg_data_home, 0);
     setenv("sysconfdir", "/etc", 0);
+
     char *newpath;
-    if (asprintf(&newpath, "%s/xdg/bb/helpers:%s/bb/helpers:%s", getenv("sysconfdir"), getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME"), getenv("PATH")) < 0)
-        err("Could not allocate memory");
+    static char bbpath[PATH_MAX];
+    // Hacky fix to allow `bb` to be run out of its build directory:
+    if (strncmp(argv[0], "./", 2) == 0) {
+        if (realpath(argv[0], bbpath) == NULL)
+            err("Could not resolve path: %s", bbpath);
+        char *slash = strrchr(bbpath, '/');
+        if (!slash) err("No slash found in real path: %s", bbpath);
+        *slash = '\0';
+        setenv("BBPATH", bbpath, 1);
+    }
+    if (getenv("BBPATH")) {
+        if (asprintf(&newpath, "%s/helpers:%s/bb/helpers:%s",
+                     getenv("BBPATH"), getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME"), getenv("PATH")) < 0)
+            err("Could not allocate memory for PATH");
+    } else {
+        if (asprintf(&newpath, "%s/xdg/bb/helpers:%s/bb/helpers:%s",
+                     getenv("sysconfdir"), getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME"), getenv("PATH")) < 0)
+            err("Could not allocate memory for PATH");
+    }
     setenv("PATH", newpath, 1);
+
     setenv("SHELL", "bash", 0);
     setenv("EDITOR", "nano", 0);
     char *curdepth = getenv("BBDEPTH");
diff --git a/bb.h b/bb.h
index 21bbe89..479943f 100644
--- a/bb.h
+++ b/bb.h
@@ -244,11 +244,14 @@ static const char *description_str = "bb - an itty bitty console TUI file browse
 static const char *usage_str = "Usage: bb (-h/--help | -v/--version | -s | -d | -0 | +command)* [[--] directory]\n";
 
 static const char *runstartup = 
-"for path in \"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bb\" \"$sysconfdir/xdg/bb\" .; do\n"
-"    if [ -e \"$path/bbstartup.sh\" ]; then\n"
-"        . \"$path/bbstartup.sh\";\n"
-"        break;\n"
-"    fi;\n"
-"done\n";
+"if [ \"$BBPATH\" ]; then\n"
+"    . \"$BBPATH/bbstartup.sh\"\n"
+"else\n"
+"    for path in \"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bb\" \"$sysconfdir/xdg/bb\"; do\n"
+"        [ -e \"$path/bbstartup.sh\" ] || continue\n"
+"        . \"$path/bbstartup.sh\"\n"
+"        break\n"
+"    done\n"
+"fi\n";
 
 // vim: ts=4 sw=0 et cino=L2,l1,(0,W4,m1
diff --git a/bbstartup.sh b/bbstartup.sh
index 9058169..e316373 100755
--- a/bbstartup.sh
+++ b/bbstartup.sh
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
 # Load key bindings
 # first check ~/.config/bb/bindings.bb, then /etc/xdg/bb/bindings.bb, then ./bindings.bb
 [ ! -d "$XDG_DATA_HOME/bb" ] && mkdir -p "$XDG_DATA_HOME/bb"
-if [ ! -e "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bb/bindings.bb" ] && [ ! -e "$sysconfdir/xdg/bb/bindings.bb" ]; then
-    cat "./bindings.bb" 2>/dev/null | awk '/^#/ {next} /^[^ ]/ {printf "\0bind:"} {print $0} END {printf "\0"}' >> "$BBCMD"
+
+if [ "$BBPATH" ]; then
+    cat "$BBPATH/bindings.bb" 2>/dev/null
 else
-    for path in "$sysconfdir/xdg/bb" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bb"; do
-        cat "$path/bindings.bb" 2>/dev/null
-    done | awk '/^#/ {next} /^[^ ]/ {printf "\0bind:"} {print $0} END {printf "\0"}' >> "$BBCMD"
-fi
+    cat "$sysconfdir/xdg/bb/bindings.bb" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bb/bindings.bb" 2>/dev/null
+fi | awk '/^#/ {next} /^[^ ]/ {printf "\0bind:"} {print $0} END {printf "\0"}' >> "$BBCMD"
+
 if [ -e "$XDG_DATA_HOME/bb/state.sh" ]; then
     . "$XDG_DATA_HOME/bb/state.sh"
 fi