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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003586 | Spring engine | General | public | 2013-03-16 14:19 | 2015-07-06 11:07 |
| Reporter | raziel | Assigned To | abma | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 93.2 | ||||
| Summary | 0003586: Mandatory absolute data dir paths avoid portability | ||||
| Description | Game refuses to run with relative data dirs | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | On Archlinux: * Download the code from http://sourceforge.net/p/pg4l/code * Run pacman2appDir -a spring * Run ./AppRun | ||||
| Additional Information | I'm trying to create a portable, auto-runnable version of spring for http://www.portablelinuxgames.org/. In order to make the game work without installation, I patch the binaries to remove absolute paths and translate them to relative paths. However, when I do this with any spring-related game, I get this error: Error: Spring: Incorrect/Missing content: a datadir may not be specified with a relative path: "./../share/spring/" According to http://code.metager.de/source/xref/SpringRTS/spring/rts/System/FileSystem/DataDirLocater.cpp in DeterminePermissions() you look for ".." in the path, and automatically mark it as invalid if it's found, even if it has little to do with permissions IMHO. Why is this check made? Can it be avoided? | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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You should read spring's man page You already have `full` control over the directories it searches for even w/o any code changes. So you just need the linux static build + the code to embed it in PLG |
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Thanks jK, Archlinux package doesn't seem to package such man page. The problem is if all directories are checked for an initial '/', then I cannot use relative paths, and AppImage packages are mounted on directories created with mktemp so absolute paths won't work here. If removing this check is not possible, I guess I could hot-copy or link the data dir from the package to $HOME/.spring, although I'd like to avoid that. |
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Oops, I just found some documentation on http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6497, using SPRING_DATADIR is perfect for me, so this is no longer an issue. |
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Done, packaged and uploaded to http://www.portablelinuxgames.org/ The static version fails to run on a Ubuntu LiveCD, because some libraries are not statically linked (libopenal, libSDL, etc). The Archlinux version, which includes *all* libraries and even the linker (ld-linux.so.2), actually runs. For some reason it segfaults after the data dirs are loaded, but it may be related to graphic drivers. |
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to fix the segfault a backtrace and infolog.txt would be useful... |
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Thanks abma, here's a dump of the strace and program output: http://pastebin.com/NjJ7Ws5h http://pastebin.com/WUuseA7z I got these traces running this package: Kernel Panic 204.4 ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/pg4l/files/Spring%20Kernel%20Panic/Spring%20Kernel%20Panic%204.4-r1-archlinux.run/download ). It only seems to fail on when I run it on an Ubuntu live USB natively on my laptop (Dell XPS L502X), either both 12.04 and 12.10. When I run it on my Archlinux, or on a Ubuntu 10.04 live VirtualBox VM on top of my Archlinux, the game runs fine. This is my hwinfo, extracted from Archlinux: http://pastebin.com/1DkVgyK3 |
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very likely crash was caused by gfx drivers. also the original report is fixed/solved. if it still crashes, please create a new report. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2013-03-16 14:19 | raziel | New Issue | |
| 2013-03-16 15:22 | jK | Note Added: 0010086 | |
| 2013-03-16 21:57 | raziel | Note Added: 0010089 | |
| 2013-03-16 22:00 | raziel | Note Added: 0010090 | |
| 2013-03-17 10:51 | raziel | Note Added: 0010096 | |
| 2013-03-21 00:25 | abma | Note Added: 0010143 | |
| 2013-03-21 00:25 | abma | Note Edited: 0010143 | |
| 2013-03-30 11:44 | raziel | Note Added: 0010323 | |
| 2013-03-30 11:44 | raziel | Note Edited: 0010323 | |
| 2015-07-06 11:07 | abma | Note Added: 0014908 | |
| 2015-07-06 11:07 | abma | Status | new => resolved |
| 2015-07-06 11:07 | abma | Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |
| 2015-07-06 11:07 | abma | Assigned To | => abma |
| 2015-07-06 11:07 | abma | Resolution | unable to reproduce => fixed |
