[AD] [ alleg-Bugs-1223257 ] Mac OSX allegro will not read config files

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Bugs item #1223257, was opened at 2005-06-18 12:52
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Category: Tools and Examples
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>Status: Closed
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Tony Kramer (proto_potty)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Mac OSX allegro will not read config files

Initial Comment:
I have noticed that the Mac OSX version of the 4.2 beta
allegro won't read any data from a config file.  At
first I thought that it was something that I was doing
wrong, but the example program exconfig has the same
problem.  The set_config_file() doesn't crash or
anything.  The get functions just return 0 or NULL. 
Writing to the config files works just fine.  I have
tested this using Mac OS 10.3.9 and 10.4.1 with xcode
1.2 (not xcode 2.0).

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>Comment By: Matthew Leverton (konforce)
Date: 2007-08-06 00:04

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set_config_file does not look in other locations for the file.
Documentation updated to clarify this.

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Comment By: Peter Hull (peterhull90)
Date: 2005-06-19 14:50

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I don't think this is a bug. From my interpretation of the 
documentation, Allegro will search various paths, including the 
executable directory, _only_ for the allegro.cfg file. If you specify 
your own config file, as exconfig does, it will look in the place that 
you specified, so if you gave it a path-less filename, it will look in 
the current directory only.

I think an argument could be made that this behaviour is rather 
useless, and it should search the executable directory, that is not 
what the docs say. 

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Comment By: Tony Kramer (proto_potty)
Date: 2005-06-18 13:55

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I just found that it the example program exconfig will read
the config file if it is run from the terminal in the same
directory as the config file.  But if you run it from any
other directory (like ./examples/exconfig from the allegro
root directory) or from finder, it will not load.

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