Draft version of patch, that makes possible to define SHARED_DATA_DIR as absolute path. Notes: possibly breaks loading of data from user's home folder --- source/vdrift/pathmanager.cpp.orig 2013-04-22 14:44:09.626544667 +0400 +++ source/vdrift/pathmanager.cpp 2013-04-22 14:45:01.010546299 +0400 @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ //dirs.push_back(user_data_dir); // Adding relative path from installed executable - dirs.push_back(execname().parent_path().parent_path() / shareDir); + dirs.push_back(shareDir); // Adding relative path for running from sources dirs.push_back(execname().parent_path().parent_path() / "data"); dirs.push_back(execname().parent_path().parent_path());