[M3devel] problems with cm3.cfg and MxConfig

[Jay K]

Sorry about #1 Randy, my mistake.
 
 
Sitting in the bin directory...seems a little wierd, eh?
What source are you going to build sitting there?
I guess um some custom quake code??
Good enough if empty is instead just "."?

This falls out of the fact that cm3 actually probes all over the place for the cm3.cfg file and the first place it looks in is the current directory.
 
 
Another good option I think would be just to remove that probe.
It looks in way too many places.
 
 
Here is the current code. I think it is gross.
Too much probing make things quite ambiguous.
 
 
PROCEDURE FindConfig () =
  (* LL = mu *)
  VAR txt: TEXT;
  BEGIN
    IF (found) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the current directory *)
    IF TryConfig (Filename) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the immediate source directory *)
    IF TryConfig ("src", Filename) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the sibling source directory *)
    IF TryConfig ("..", "src", Filename) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the M3CONFIG environment variable *)
    txt := QMachine.GetEnv (NIL, "M3CONFIG");
    IF (txt # NIL) THEN
      IF TryConfig (txt) THEN RETURN END;
      IF TryConfig (txt, Filename) THEN RETURN END;
    END;
 
    (* try the directory containing the current executable *)
    txt := Pathname.Prefix (Params.Get (0));

    IF Text.Length (txt)> 0 THEN
      IF TryConfig (txt, Filename) THEN RETURN END;
    END;
 
    (* try the directories named by the PATH environment variable. *)
    txt := Env.Get ("PATH");
    FindConfigInPath (txt);

    IF found THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the etc directories *)
    IF TryConfig("/usr/local/cm3/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END;
    IF TryConfig("/usr/cm3/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/cm3/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/usr/contrib/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/usr/local/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/usr/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/opt/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/sw/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END; 
    IF TryConfig("/etc", Filename) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* oh well, make sure we don't try this silly exercise again... *)
    config := NIL;
    found := TRUE;
  END FindConfig;
 
 
I propose..roughly roughly, we make it like this instead:
 
 
PROCEDURE FindConfig () =
  (* LL = mu *)
  VAR txt: TEXT;
  BEGIN
    IF (found) THEN RETURN END;
 
    (* try the M3CONFIG environment variable *)
    txt := QMachine.GetEnv (NIL, "M3CONFIG");
    IF (txt # NIL) THEN
      IF TryConfig (txt) THEN RETURN END;
      IF TryConfig (txt, Filename) THEN RETURN END;
    END;
 
    (* try the directory containing the current executable *)
    txt := Pathname.Prefix (Params.Get (0));
    IF Text.Length (txt)> 0 THEN
      IF TryConfig (txt, Filename) THEN RETURN END;
    END;
 
    (* oh well, make sure we don't try this silly exercise again... *)
    config := NIL;
    found := TRUE;
  END FindConfig;
 
 
or, if people really like it looking all over the place, fixing the case of it being in the current working directory is probably like this:
 
 
    (* try the current directory *)
<    IF TryConfig (Filename) THEN RETURN END;
>    IF TryConfig (".", Filename) THEN RETURN END;

 
 - Jay



----------------------------------------
> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: rcoleburn at scires.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:42:17 -0700
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] problems with cm3.cfg and MxConfig
>
> Host, hm, I think probably my mistake. It is defined by cm3 but not
> all m3quake users. Path() should be the directory containing the file
> with the call.
>
> - Jay (phone)
>
> On Aug 2, 2009, at 9:52 PM, "Randy Coleburn" 
> wrote:
>
>> I have been working on the problem of cm3ide not getting the
>> BUILD_DIR from cm3.cfg. I've run across some perplexing test results.
>>
>> MxConfig.Get("BUILD_DIR") is returning NIL on Windows XP & Vista.
>> I've tracked it down a bit further. There seem to be two issues
>> that must be fixed to solve this problem:
>>
>> 1. HOST does not seem to be defined. In particular my "C:\cm3\bin
>> \cm3.cfg" file appears as follows (this is the file Jay recommended):
>> INSTALL_ROOT = path() & "/.."
>> include (path() & "/config/" & HOST)
>>
>> Is HOST a variable? Or, was I supposed to replace it by "NT386"?
>> If the latter, my bad on this one--I took Jay's message literally.
>>
>> 2. path() does not appear to always yield the path to the bin
>> folder. In particular, it seems to work fine unless you invoke the
>> program when the current directory is actually set to the bin
>> folder, in which case path() seems to return the empty string.
>>
>> So, if Í%=C:\, and I run cm3ide, path() returns "C:\cm3\bin" as it s
>> hould.
>> But, if Í%=C:\cm3\bin, and I run cm3ide, path() returns "".
>>
>> So in the latter case, the include statement winds up trying to pull
>> a file from the wrong place, e.g. "/config/NT386" rather than "C:
>> \cm3\bin/config/NT386"
>>
>> Regards,
>> Randy Coleburn