running different version from its build directory?

[René J. V. Bertin]

Kevin Funk wrote:

Hi,

> I'm not sure what's the problem with the traditional way of installing
> KDevelop into a separate prefix (-> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=...), setting up
> PATH/QT_PLUGIN_PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on macOS) and
> running the specific kdevelop binary then? That always worked fine.

Nothing wrong, probably, I just didn't think of that. I build with full rpath 
info on Linux (it's the default on Mac) so I shouldn't have to set 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'd have to figure out how to let Qt look for plugins in an 
additional directory though.

R.