[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8802) ser isn't created from ser.in

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8802 >

Raimar Falke wrote:

>>We used pwd in the scripts before but decided @abs_top_srcdir@ was
>>"better"
> 
> Any detail here?

See PR#8677.  Using these values directly is clearly less tricksy.

>>(certainly it is simpler).  If possible I'd rather keep the 
>>hack inside configure.in, but...
> 
>>If we do use pwd, we should use it for the srcdir as well.
> 
> srcdir is relative to builddir because builddir is ".". If we use the
> absolute builddir for the srcdir we don't need the second pwd.

You'll get an absolute path this way but it may not be a minimal one.

Note there are other problems with the civ and ser scripts.  Since 
civclient is run with a working directory as the srcdir, the gtk2 
conndlg won't work since neither ./ser nor ./server/civserver is 
present.  This of course relates to the conndlg problems in general.

Previously we ran the client (and server) with a working directory as 
the builddir.  However then the data directories ($srcdir/data) weren't 
accessable through the default path.  This is solvable by setting 
$FREECIV_PATH; however this can't easily include the entire default path 
(which includes $HOME/.freeciv and which may be platform-dependent).

So in summary the whole problem is tricky.

jason