Querying given data-dir parameter in runtime

[c4milo]

Is there anyway to know what was the data-dir parameter passed during compilation? it would be very useful to have it around somewhere, especially for tooling in other programming languages trying to do user lookups without linking with C libraries.

[aperezdc]

There is no direct way. An idea could be to add a small tool which allows querying the build configuration.

[aperezdc]

I have just pushed a commit to master which works as follows:

% ./nss-altfiles-config datadir
/etc/alt
% ./nss-altfiles-config modulename
altfiles

This should be enough for scripting e.g. using a shell.

[c4milo]

Nice! Thanks @aperezdc for addressing this so quickly.