thanks for replies and thanks for pointing out the bug tracker XP
I have just confirmed that vdrift is installed in /usr/share/games/vdrift
Code:
/usr/share/games/vdrift$ ls
bin data vdrift
on further investigation of the paths issue, I have found that if I run from the /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin directory and type ./vdrift I can also type vdrift (which runs using the symlink that i created in /usr/bin), this works fine.
However if I then change directory to my home directory and type
vdrift
(which will cause it to run using the symlink just as before), the game gives me
Code:
ERROR: Shader file not found: data/shaders/simple/vertex.glsl
vdrift: src/shader.cpp:131: void SHADER_GLSL::LoadFileIntoString(const std::string&, std::string&, std::ostream&) const: Assertion `f' failed.
SIGABRT detected, releasing the mouse
the same issue occurs when i run it like exec /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift
so the binary cannot find the files on my system if the current directory is not one of /usr/share/games/vdrift or /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin. I think from this, that it does not check /usr/share/games/vdrift for the data folder, maybe it checks for ../data and ./data? which is not necessarily the same thing (as in this case).
I have not set the VDRIFT_DATA_DIRECTORY environment variable and the installer has not set it.
Code:
cmaster@cmaster-desktop:~$ $VDRIFT_DATA_DIRECTORY
cmaster@cmaster-desktop:~$
When you say it checks for what the compiled prefix is does that mean it checks for the prefix that you used when you ran scons? Because I did not set any prefix there which would cause this to fail.
About the symlink thing, most programs will install there binary's to either of /usr/bin /usr/local/bin so it is not usually necessary to symlink the binary to one of these directory's.
Perhaps the best way to fix these issues would be:
1) Install the binary to one of /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin as default
(you could of course keep the current way of installing and symlink it, this should work fine as well)
2) Ensure the game checks /usr/share/games/vdrift whether it is the compile prefix or not
3) Explain in these pages:
http://wiki.vdrift.net/Installing_on_Linux
http://wiki.vdrift.net/Compiling
That if you installed vdrift data to a different directory than /usr/share/games/vdrift you may need to set the environment variable you mentioned.
thanks for your help
