Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Map file not found sometimes

[Matthew G. <mat...@gm...>]

On Sunday 17 February 2008, David Fox wrote:
> On 2/16/08, Matthew Gates <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> > When deciding where the installation directory is, Stellarium first
> > looks for the existence of "./data/ssystem.ini", where "." means the
> > current
>
> OK, clear so far, so even if my installation directory is
> /usr/local/share/stellarium, it should still
> find the data subdirectory and all the other support files it needs,
> and it seems to do that just fine.
>
> > If ./data/ssystem.ini is not found, Stellarium will check a value which
> > is set at compile time.  This is only set for *nix systems, and is
>
> It doesn't seem that I would need to have to set this option
> explicitly, even if /usr/local/share/stellarium is my installation
> subdirectory, rather than /usr/share/stellarium - and that is because
> stellarium is a 'local' program, i.e., not something installed by the
> distribution (debian in this case) and as such I maintain the
> traditional *nix /usr vs /usr/local split.
>
> I've never had to set that value explicitly before - on other builds,
> of course, that's something handled by a 'configure' script
> (--prefix=/usr/local, or somesuch) and all the directories are set up
> relative to what --prefix is. Obviously, stellarium uses cmake
> instead, so I guess you'd still need something similar, right?

Yes a configure script --prefix option is analagous to 
cmake's -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option.

> > The cities_Earth.fab file should be located in the map code using a
> > call to the StelFileMgr::findFile("data/cities_Earth.fab"), but I guess
> > it hasn't been done yet.  Maybe I will do it now.
>
> It at least finds it this time (running from $HOME) so something is
> working :). OTOH, the cities come up, but no world map, with ctrl-L or
> the left panel widget.

What version of QT do you have?  


> Oh, and I've been getting (sometimes, but not always, but
> reproducible) a segfault on exit, since a few SVN revisions ago.

I've not seen it.  Try a full clean and build.  If that doesn't help run 
stellarium in gdb and do a backtrace to see where the problem is and report 
it here.

Matthew