build: Add new run-script to run local scripts

This sets up the environment to be able to run the local scripts using
local modules and data files.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/run-script b/run-script
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+top_srcdir=`dirname $0`
+
+# To avoid using «readlink -f» or «realpath» we just change into the
+# desired directory and work from there.
+cd "$top_srcdir"
+
+# Set up the environment, to use local perl modules and data files.
+export PERL5LIB=`pwd`/scripts
+export DPKG_DATADIR=`pwd`
+
+exec "$@"