Directory Structure

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:17 am

I have compiled the current svn vegastrike, and I have the data4.x folder svn downloaded. How do I set up the directory structure in order for it to work. I tried placing the vegastrike binary in the bin folder, and I also did a make install which gave me about 6 different binaries that I installed into the bin folder. But when I try to run it, it just tells me that X refused my connection. So picky.

Zeog · Post by **Zeog** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:00 am

I'm no expert on X servers but does a

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xhost +local:

prior to launching VS do the job? (It's only a workaround and has some security issues if other people log in to your computer.)

For me, it works just fine if I compile the SVN VS and create a symbolic link from data4.x directory to vegastrike and vssoundserver executables and run VS from the data4.x directory.

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:55 pm

What do you name that symbolic link?

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:34 am

I guess it really didn't matter. It worked. Unfortunately, I took both ideas. So I'm not really sure which one worked . . . I won't find out until the computer gets restarted. And then hopefully I'll remember what I did. Thanks, Zeog

andreasj · Post by **andreasj** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:00 am

I have the same X permission problem. Can you
tell us what operating system/compiler version
you use?

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:27 pm

from an other post Zeog uses Ubantu. which should do till Zeog can responsed.

Enjoy the Choice

andreasj · Post by **andreasj** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:22 pm

Actually I was asking for rigelan's OS and
compiler. According to the forum this problem has
affected Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo users, and I
still have no clue what could cause it...

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:12 pm

Slackware 10.2
GCC 3.4.5
Xorg 6.9.0
Linux 2.6.14.6
And since I've restarted the computer, it does look it like the xhost command was the ingredient that did the trick.

Zeog · Post by **Zeog** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:54 am

Sorry for being away that long...

I'm using Kubuntu Breezy Badger (5.10) but Ubuntu should behave the same since the only difference is the window manager. It comes by default with GCC 4.0.2 and compiling works fine after I installed a lot of dev-libraries (OpenAL, Mesa, some Python stuff I think and everything else that causes ./configure to throw up).

After I downloaded the SVN packages I had the following directory structure:

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whatever
  |
  +--data4.x
  |
  +--vegastrike
  |
  +--music

Then I run the the "vegastrike" directory the following commands to build VS:

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./bootstrap-sh
./configure
./make

Then the "vegastrike" and the "soundserver" executables are in the "vegastrike" directory. Form the "data4.x" directory I issued the commands

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ln -s ../vegastrike/vegastrike
ln -s ../vegastrike/soundserver

which create the links. (A simple copy would also suffice but then I need to copy it again after rebuilding vegastrike.)
I'm running now vegastrike from the data4.x dir. I did this because VS always complained that it couldn't find the data-dir, configuration files or the like so I came up with this and it worked. Before running it for the first time (after logging in) I have do the workaround by setting Xserver permissions with

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xhost +local:

as mentioned above. It isn't a problem for sinlge user machines I presume.
I didn't do a "make install". But this works and is good enough for toying around with VS.

Kubuntu/Ubuntu Breezy also uses XOrg 6.something. Could it be that this X permission error occurs only on XOrg machines and not on XFree ones?

andreasj · Post by **andreasj** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:46 pm

I had the problem both on Debian stable and
Debian testing, with XFree and xorg. By the way,
xhost on single user machines in only safe if X is
not listening on any TCP ports. This is the default
setting for most distros, but you should still check
it (use netstat -l).

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:54 pm

And just a note. This was only a problem with the CVS/SVN versions. I had no issues whatsoever with the 0.4.3 version from early last year.

Post by **ace123** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:58 pm

Hmm... it seems to be SDL_Init() causing the problem, based on a line-by-line trace in GDB.

I'm going to see what we can do to prevent this... though it appears to be an SDL bug.

My .Xauthority has in fact been getting truncated as well on my computer, though for some reason programs still work without it... I don't understand why.