[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8807) Server doesn't start with broken ser script

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8807 >

Raimar Falke wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8807 >
> 
> 
> Client starts server. Server does 
> 
>   execvp("./ser", argv);
> 
> but the ser script doesn't find the civserver binary and exits the
> script. But this will also exit the freshly forked server.
> 
> Solution 1: try "./server/civserver" before "./ser".
> 
> Solution 2: add a wrapper (sh -c) around the ser exec so that the
> script's exit doesn't exit the server process.

It's hard to handle all cases here.  We should look for the civserver in 
the same directory the civclient was run in ($prefix/civserver).  And 
_maybe_ if that fails try $prefix/server/civserver or 
$prefix/../server/civserver.  We should not try running the ser script 
or any other wrapper.

I'm not entirely sure how to tell what directory the civclient program 
is in, though.

jason