Latest PPA version refuse to start (could not find file or directory: /usr/games/usr/share/games/widelands)

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Installed 1:18-ppa0-bzr7220-201410180547~ubuntu14.10.1 from the widelands-daily PPA. When attempting to run Widelands I get the following error message:

$ widelands
Set home directory: /home/ubuntu/.widelands
There's no configuration file, using default values.
Widelands executable directory: /usr/games/
full path: /usr/games/usr
Adding directory: /usr/games/usr/share/games/widelands

Caught exception (of type '17FileNotFoundError') in outermost handler!
The exception said: FileSystem::create: could not find file or directory: /usr/games/usr/share/games/widelands

This should not happen. Please file a bug report on version bzr7220-201410180547(Release).
and remember to specify your operating system.

Since the path is so weird I suspect the recent changes in bug 1342228 might be related. Since I normally build WL myself, I don't use the PPA often so I don't know whether those changes broke it or if it happened more recently with r7212.

Quite possibly the packaging needs some tweaking to set the correct paths when building. Currenly cmake is invoked with the following options (see debian/rules for details):
   dh_auto_configure -Scmake -- \
  -DWL_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
  -DWL_INSTALL_DATADIR=share/games/widelands \
  -DWL_INSTALL_BINDIR=games \
  -DWL_INSTALL_LOCALEDIR=/usr/share/games/widelands/locale \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

Anything obvious here which won't work after the latest changes?

[TiborB (tiborb95)]

I had similar issue, I attributed it to a custom installation script. Then I used original compile.sh script and installed ninja - and the problem was gone...

[SirVer (sirver)]

This broke in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/trunk/revision/7212. I forgot about the PPA.

I think -D WL_PATHS_ARE_ABSOLUTE="true" must be used to compile that way. Otherwise paths are interpreted from the binaries root directory.

See
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/trunk/view/head:/CMakeLists.txt#L15
and
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/trunk/view/head:/src/config.h.cmake

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Adding WL_ABSOLUTE_PATHS worked. Merged to the daily PPA + the daily-precise PPA.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build19-rc1.