[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] rfalke: Set the value of PATH_SEPARATOR based on a s...

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raimar Falke writes:
 > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:29:12PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
 > > freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
 > >  > This is an automated notification of a change to freeciv cvs, 
 > >  > on Wed Jan 30 07:44:24 PST 2002 = Wed Jan 30 15:44:24 2002 (GMT)
 > >  > by Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > >  > 
 > >  > ---- Files affected:
 > >  > 
 > >  > freeciv/common shared.c
 > >  > 
 > >  > ---- Log message:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Set the value of PATH_SEPARATOR based on a sensible rule.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Reported by Alexander Mai <st002279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
 > >  > 
 > > This breaks win32 a bit. You need to set FREECIV_PATH manually now.
 > > (SET FREECIV_PATH=data has to be typed into a dos box)
 > > How should this be fixed?
 > 
 > How does it break?

in configure.in:
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DEFAULT_DATA_PATH, ".:data:~/.freeciv:$FREECIV_DATADIR")

So datafilename() (in common/shared.c) gets that string and searches
for ';' in it. But it does not find one...
So I have to set FREECIV_PATH to overwrite the default path. 

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade