Re: persistence ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> Sorry to ask this on the list, if i weren't on 56k dialup i would
> research more extensively.
> 
> My working RedHat machine does not have a net connection so this is
> really awkward, please bear with me, I have to download and then bring
> the files home with me.  i downloaded one of Cyrilles CVS tarballs from
> April 19 and compiled it succesfully on RedHat.
> 
> It runs but dies if i try and create a new document.
> 
> On the
> command line I get a message about not being able to stat
> ./dia/persistence

Strangely, it doesn't complain when I have no persistence file, or even no
dia dir.  But try this patch:

Index: app/persistence.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/dia/app/persistence.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -r1.3 persistence.c
26a27,29
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
104a108,110
>   struct stat statbuf;
> 
>   if (stat(filename, &statbuf) == -1) return;

-Lars

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