Re: Dia Issue

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 24 Oct 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
>> Le Thu, Oct 23, 2003, á 10:58:49PM +0100, gareth foster a
>> écrit:
>>> Ok, here is the problem, Dia looks very nice, but the RPM provided by
>>> DAG (a major provider of RPMs for Redhat systems) is not behaving
>>> correctly. He is aware of the problem, and does not know why it exists.
>>
>> Is DAG installing into /usr ? If not, he needs to configure with the
>> right --prefix. Also, he complains that run_dia.sh is not shipped, AFAIR
>> it's inexact, it is in the app/ directory (but it's not installed, as
>> it's normally a development tool only)
>
> It seems to be created on the fly with the _current_ working directory 
> included. I don't understand what's the point ? (My current working 
> directory when building is /mnt/dar/BUILD/dia-0.92/
>
> Apart from that, it doesn't work when I fix the run_dia.sh with proper 
> paths.
>
>
>> One thing you could do if it still fails is to strace dia, and then grep
>> the strace output for "open" and the like -- and see what it tries to do
>> and where.
>
> I tried that, but apart from the fact that it cannot find my defaults I 
> see nothing interesting. Dia doesn't expect to have an existing 
> configuration, does it ?

No, it will write the defaults once it runs.

The libraries may not be loaded through open, try running strace and
checking what the last few files mentioned are.

-Lars


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