gt: Silent failure if no configuration file found

I cloned and compiled gt, and installed it using make install.

When I tried to run “gt”, it appeared to succeed, but nothing happened. Eventually, running it under strace revealed that it was existing because it could not find any configuration files.

stat64("~/.gt.conf", 0xbecf8a28)        = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/gt//gt.conf", O_RDONLY)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
exit_group(-1)                          = ?
+++ exited with 255 +++

Creating /etc/gt/gt.conf as an empty file allowed it to continue.

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@JFreyberger I think that this is now fixed, I got rid of the “runtime prefix” in favour of the normal prefix plus DESTDIR when installing into a separate rootfs.

Here is how to use install into /usr/local but use /etc instead of /usr/local/etc:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc

pabs3 on Sep 30, 2021

Thanks, that clarifies a bit. I can see that gt is not using cmake in the normal ways so the config ends up in the wrong place. I’ll investigate the reason for this and come up with a patch soon.

– bye, pabs

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pabs3 on Sep 30, 2021

giving no prefix (using default cmake prefix)

Install the project… – Install configuration: “” – Up-to-date: /usr/local/etc/gt/ – Up-to-date: /usr/local/etc/gt/gt.conf – Up-to-date: /usr/local/bin/gt – Up-to-date: /usr/local/usr/share/man/man1/gt.1.gz

might explain the issues

xzcvczx on Dec 12, 2019