Hi, I tried to compile and run ion3 without installing it and I took apparently the painful way. I ended up copying most .lua and configuration files to ~/.ion3/lib just because ion3 was looking for them there and otherwise couldn't find them. (Why can't it try also in the current directory?).
Then I found that ion started with a „segmentation fault“ error (more info below). Much later I discovered the cause: there was a file I couldn't copy to ~/.ion3/lib because it wasn't in ion's source. It is look.lua and is created in the etc/Makefile as a symlink to look_newviolet.lua. My request is: instead of creating a link to it at install time, can ion really have a look.lua file which refers (like in #include) look_newviolet.lua? In this way the file doesn't need a special installation step; it is just copied like the others. If not, maybe the defaulting to look_newviolet.lua can be included in the C code, so that if it doesn't find look.lua at least it doesn't crash with a segmentation fault. I would even find better if ion stopped with an useful error message when it can't find look.lua. -- Daniel backtrace: (gdb) run Starting program: /Werkstatt/ion-3-20090110/ion/ion3 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb7d79a70 (LWP 13761)] >> Unable to find 'look' on search path. >> drawing engines loaded, trying "de". >> Unable to find brush for style 'frame-unknown'. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb7d79a70 (LWP 13761)] 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000 in ?? () #1 0x0806e4a7 in grbrush_set_window_shape (brush=0x0, rough=1, n=0, rects=0x0) at gr.c:594
