* Oliver Schroeder -- Thursday 02 October 2008: > No, it's from the "CVS Resources" page on flightgear.org. > > "cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 > co data" creates the "data" subdir.
Yes, but it doesn't say that you should set FG_ROOT to the directory that contains a subdirectory called "data/". Instead you should set it to the data directory itself. This should be the path to the version file: $FG_ROOT/version (by default that shoud be /usr/local/share/FlightGear/version) That fgfs contains a hack that automatically adds "/data" if $FG_ROOT/data/ exists is a different matter. This sort of tolerance has no advantages, it is actually a *limitation* for all other applications that need to access FG_ROOT. They now have also to include the hack, or risk not working everywhere. I've added a warning for the case where someone sets FG_ROOT the bad way. And next time someone comes along with that problem, I'll upgrade it to alert, and then to segfault. ;-) > So I always assumed that having the data subdir is the way it > should be. Understandable. Time to remove this ambiguity. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
