[DISPATCH-712] Dispatch - Simplify use of non-system instances

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Justin Ross
• Reporter: Justin Ross
• Created: 02/Dec/13 12:51
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 19:17
• Resolved: 17/Dec/13 16:57

Description

Right now the config path is set to /etc/qpid-dispatch/... in every instance, and the user needs to override it.

For checkouts and other alternate installs, I propose that instead we look to see if QPID_DISPATCH_HOME is set, and if so load config from QPID_DISPATCH_HOME/etc.

If we then change QPID_DISPATCH_HOME to be the dispatch build dir, where the configured files land by convention, we'll have an instance that can run without extra args.

• Load config from QPID_DISPATCH_HOME/etc if QDH is set; otherwise, use /etc/qpid-dispatch/...
• Change the config.sh QPID_DISPATCH_HOME to $(pwd)/build

This additionally helps with home-dir installs.