Ryzom

Define CHANGE_CURRENT_PATH if you want to use system default application path, define NL_ETC_PREFIX to directory where all _default.cfg files are installed and NL_SHARE_PREFIX where data are installed.

For Ryzom client, servers and tools :

• NL_ETC_PREFIX should be /etc/ryzom
• NL_SHARE_PREFIX should be /usr/share/games/ryzom

If CHANGE_CURRENT_PATH is defined, logs and other users data will be written in ~/.ryzom else it will use current directory from where you launched executable.

There is a bracket missing in code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp introduced with Revision r489

diff -r 437aa3643277 code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp
--- a/code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp        Fri Jul 16 23:12:25 2010 +0200
+++ b/code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp        Sat Jul 17 15:48:14 2010 +0200
@@ -2454,7 +2454,7 @@
        if (!appName.empty())
                path = CPath::standardizePath(path + appName);
 #else
-       if (!appName.empty))
+       if (!appName.empty())
                path = CPath::standardizePath(path + "." + toLower(appName));
 #endif

Thanks jayme, I noticed that this morning when I was compiling under Linux :)

I changed CMake variables names (specified values are those used on Debian based systems) :

• RYZOM_PREFIX should be /usr
• RYZOM_BIN_PREFIX should be /usr/games
• RYZOM_ETC_PREFIX should be /etc/ryzom
• RYZOM_SHARE_PREFIX should be /usr/share/games/ryzom

All these variables are now defined in config.h and a HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined if config.h is created by CMake.

• CHANGE_CURRENT_PATH is not used anymore, it automatically detects if you run client from Ryzom directory or not.

The same would be useful for the server too..

Great! But avoiding using ~/.ryzom and use the XDG Basedir spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) instead would be even better!