config converting problem

[Vincent Béron]

Le mer 11/08/2004 à 04:40, Henning Gerhardt a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> a friend of me would update the wine package (20030813) from his SuSE 9.0 system 
> to the latest availabe package for this system (20040716). After the update following 
> error message appears on each start of wine:
> 
> ....
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible.

Mike, we might have one of the situations causing this error here.

> 
> He get me also an output of the first wine start:
> 
> Created symlink /home/julian/.wine/dosdevices/c: -> ../${HOME}/.wine/fake_windows
> ....
> Created symlink /home/julian/.wine/dosdevices/y: -> ../${HOME}
> ....
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible.
> 
> 
> After my advise to get me the content of his "~/.wine/dosdevices", he send me 
> the following output:
> 
> ....
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 julian users 28 10. Aug 18:50 c: -> ../%HOME%/.wine/fake_windows
> ....
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 julian users  9 10. Aug 18:50 y: -> ../%HOME%
> ....
> 
> and he send me also his config file (snipped content):
> 
> [Drive C]
>  "Path" = "${HOME}/.wine/fake_windows"
>  "Type" = "hd"
>  "Label" = "fake_windows"
>  "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> ...
> 
> [Drive Y]
>  "Type" = "network"
>  "Path" = "${HOME}"
>  "Label" = "Home"
>  "FS" = "win95"
> 
> ....
> 
> (I translated the german dialog with him to english)
> 
> I think the problem is the ${HOME} variable which is not parsed / correct replaced 
> during the convert process.
> 
> Have anyone an idea to solve this problem ? Or is it only a problem of the 
> SuSE distribution ?

It's not SuSE specific. It's a problem from upgrading from a (somewhat)
old to a newer Wine version.

Wine used to understand ${HOME}-style vars in config. This was then
changed to %HOME%-style vars. Current Wine doesn't use config anymore
for drives but uses dosdevices, which is created on the fly from config
if it doesn't exist.

So the problem comes from 2 changes, with only the latter being acted on
automatically.

If you want to fix it, the simplest way would be to create the following
symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices:

ln -s ../fake_windows c:
ln -s /home/julian y:

Vincent