On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:47 AM, <joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com> wrote: >>> And I didn't write trivial Mac patches either, e.g. to have >>> wineprefixcreate symlink c:\users\xyz\ Desktop + Videos + Documents + >>> Music to /Users/xyz/Desktop/ etc. This happens on Linux, not on MacOS. >>> That's another (example of a) missing element. >>> (Why didn't I write it? Because I was unsure where to put the #ifdef) >>Isn't that linking done relative to $HOME, which should resolve to >>/Users/xyz on Mac? > That's not the problem. What I also don't know is whether I could hardcode > the directories ~/Documents etc. (these already exist in my /Users/xyz, > (but what about Tiger?)), or whether I ought to call some OSX API that > yields the name of the dir (and possibly creates it if it does not yet exist). > I'm not familiar at all with Mac APIs, but it sounds like an easy patch > for somebody with a little MacOS programming knowledge.
I haven't used Tiger in ages, but at least for me on Snow Leopard, I can't delete those directories, since OSX considers them 'essential to OS function'. The likelihood of them missing is small, IMHO. -- -Austin
