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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:13:16AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> <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.

There are two issues here:
 - cd srcdir instead of setting FREECIV_PATH
 - how to get the srcdir

The second isn't tricky. And looking at your first patch you also come
to the same solution.

> >>(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.

This doesn't matter.

> 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).

This isn't related to the second problem above.

Solution: you find the server for a running client at
argv[0]/../server/civserver.
 
        Raimar

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