diff -r 015cad6e65d5 -r bfd82686e116 tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-simple.py
--- a/tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-simple.py	Thu Apr 28 15:20:03 2016 +0100
+++ b/tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-simple.py	Thu Apr 28 16:09:21 2016 +0100
@@ -35,5 +35,10 @@
 def run_test(root):
         # Called from tests/run.py
 
+        # Set the working directory in case we are executing from
+        # outside gem5's source tree
+        import os
+        os.chdir(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../"))
+
         # Execute the script we are wrapping
-        execfile('configs/learning_gem5/part1/simple.py')
+        execfile(srcpath('configs/learning_gem5/part1/simple.py'))
diff -r 015cad6e65d5 -r bfd82686e116 tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-two-level.py
--- a/tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-two-level.py	Thu Apr 28 15:20:03 2016 +0100
+++ b/tests/configs/learning-gem5-p1-two-level.py	Thu Apr 28 16:09:21 2016 +0100
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
 def run_test(root):
         # Called from tests/run.py
 
+
+        # Set the working directory in case we are executing from
+        # outside gem5's source tree
+        import os
+        os.chdir(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../"))
+
         # Add paths that we need
         m5.util.addToPath('../configs/learning_gem5/part1')
         m5.util.addToPath('../configs/common')
@@ -49,4 +55,4 @@
         # For instance, sys.argv.append('--l2_size=512kB')
 
         # Execute the script we are wrapping
-        execfile('configs/learning_gem5/part1/two_level.py')
+        execfile(srcpath('configs/learning_gem5/part1/two_level.py'))
diff -r 015cad6e65d5 -r bfd82686e116 tests/configs/memcheck.py
--- a/tests/configs/memcheck.py	Thu Apr 28 15:20:03 2016 +0100
+++ b/tests/configs/memcheck.py	Thu Apr 28 16:09:21 2016 +0100
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
 def run_test(root):
         # Called from tests/run.py
 
+        # Set the working directory in case we are executing from
+        # outside gem5's source tree
+        import os
+        os.chdir(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../"))
+
         # The path to this script is the only parameter. Delete it so
         # we can execute the script that we want to execute.
         import sys
@@ -56,4 +61,4 @@
         sys.argv.append('-m %d' % maxtick)
 
         # Execute the script we are wrapping
-        execfile('configs/example/memcheck.py', globals())
+        execfile(srcpath('configs/example/memcheck.py'), globals())
diff -r 015cad6e65d5 -r bfd82686e116 tests/run.py
--- a/tests/run.py	Thu Apr 28 15:20:03 2016 +0100
+++ b/tests/run.py	Thu Apr 28 16:09:21 2016 +0100
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@
         file = app
     return joinpath(test_progs, app, 'input', file)
 
+def srcpath(path):
+    """Path to file in gem5's source tree"""
+    return joinpath(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", path)
+
 # build configuration
 sys.path.append(joinpath(tests_root, 'configs'))
 test_filename = config