readme: add a note about UNIX paths

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Jan 7 03:50:49 CST 2009


"Austin English" <austinenglish at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Adds a note discouraging use of UNIX paths, since there's seems to
>>> have been a rash of it in recent bug reports.
>>
>> If we don't recommend it, and usually advise against it, why not just
>> remove that line from the README?
>
> I sent a patch for that a while back, and it was not accepted. I'm
> assuming Alexandre wants to keep it for some reason...

The problem is not Unix paths, it's usually that the app expects the
current directory to be the app directory. You have the same issue if
you use a Windows path. If there are really issues caused by argv[0]
being a Unix path and not just the wrong directory that can be fixed.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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