Ubuntu
libxdg-basedir package

xdgMakePath doesn't make absolute paths

Bug #375783 reported by Adam Petaccia on 2009-05-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libxdg-basedir (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Mark Nevill
Nominated for Jaunty by Mark Nevill

Bug Description

If I call xdgGetCacheHome, and pass that plus my app name to xdgMakePath, it will fail. I doubt this is the expected behavior, and I'm pretty sure the directory doesn't exist. This is on Jaunty Jackalope.

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote on 2009-05-13:

Test C++ program to demonstrate behavior. Edit (946 bytes, text/x-c++src)

Sorry its in C++, I tried to get it as close to the program I'm writing as possible.

Compiled with `g++ test.cc -lxdg-basedir`

description:

updated

Mark Nevill (nevillm) on 2009-05-13

Changed in libxdg-basedir (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Mark Nevill (mark-nevill+lp)
status:	New → Confirmed

Mark Nevill (nevillm) on 2009-05-13

Changed in libxdg-basedir (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Mark Nevill (nevillm) on 2009-05-14

Changed in libxdg-basedir (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Adam Petaccia (mighmos) wrote on 2009-05-18:

Can this be backported to Jaunty (fix or latest version)? I'm writing some software which uses this and while I doubt it will be popular I would like to have a working MakePath.

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Mark Nevill (nevillm) wrote on 2009-05-19:

C version of adam's test program Edit (619 bytes, text/plain)

TEST CASE: compile attached program against library & run.

Expected results:
  Output:
    Created /home/mark/.cache/fooapp successfully!
  With the mentioned directories created.
  Where /home/mark is the user's home directory.

Results with 0.2.0-1:
Output:
Error creating /home/mark/.cache/fooapp (No such file or directory).

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Mark Nevill (nevillm) wrote on 2009-05-19: