[Xastir] Broken II

[Chip G.]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 14:41, Chip G. wrote:

> OK, I think I have more to offer here. I did a little looking in  
> the code. In "color.c" there is a line which reads:
>
>> fprint(stderr, "Error! can not find color file: %s\n",  
>> get_data_base_dir(temp));
>
> This was the error to which I referred in my original post, which  
> read:
>
>> Error! can not find color file /xastir/config/xastir.rgb
>
> That tells me that it is looking for a directory named xastir in  
> the root for the hard drive. There is no such directory. It should  
> be reading either /sw/share/xastir/config/xastir.rgb OR ~/.xastir/ 
> config/xastir.rgb (does not exist on my system, but would make  
> sense). In any case, for some reason the get_data_base_dir()  
> function has the wrong path. I haven't traced this back (yet) but I  
> am certain it is part of the problem.

Actually it's not the get_data_base() function ... it's the temp it's  
getting passed ... since there are so many places with temp this  
might be harder to track down than I thought. I need someone who  
already knows the code ...


73,
--de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn