On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:26 +0100, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > George Patterson wrote : > > >On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:51 +0100, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > > > >>George Patterson wrote : > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>I have found a bug in the parsing of the --config command line > >>>parameter. Starting Flightgear, I noticed that the menu bar is using the > >>>default(blue) menu bar rather than the alternative black one. Which > >>>indicated that my preferences.xml isn't being loaded, rendering options > >>>was "reset" to the default. > >>> > >>>Also probably related is when exiting from fgfs, the error "Error > >>>creating directory: home/gpatterson/.fgfs". .fgfs is my home direxctor > >>>already exists with appropriate permissions. It looks like the leading > >>>slash is being dropped. > >>> > >>>Version: CVS > >>>command: fgfs --aircraft=b1900d > >>> > >>>I will send a strace if required. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Does this patch improve things ? > >>http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/sg_path.patch > >> > >>-Fred > >> > >> > > > >Fred, > > > >I have applied the patch and rebuilt Simgear and Flightgear.. > > > ># patch sg_path.cxx sg_path.patch > >patching file sg_path.cxx > >Hunk #1 succeeded at 213 with fuzz 1. > > > >However, I am now getting this error instead (double slashes) > >Error creating directory: //home/gpatterson/.fgfs > > > >Why would Simgear be trying to create a directoy that already exists? > > > > > > Not sure you have the latest CVS. Your sg_path.cxx file should be > revision 1.17. Is it the case ? > > Reload the patch as I made updates to remove the // at the beginning, > and retrieve last version of the file from CVS so the patch will apply > cleanly. > > -Fred
Fred, Problem solved.. I was somehow stuck on sg_path.cxx revision 1.16. Deleted it, ran cvs update, applied patch. Patch works.. Now I just have to fix my preferences.xml file :-) George _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
