[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/3441 Item 3441] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:10:24

ufo2map won't compile anything. Fedora 17, from the sudo-mounted NTFS disk. No matter if relative or absolute path is used.

$ ./ufo2map base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map
---- ufo2map 1.2.5 ----
---- endianness initialization -----
found little endian system
path: 'base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map'

---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: /usr/local/games/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: ./base
Adding game dir: /home/user/.ufoai/2.5-dev/base
using ./base for writing
...map: 'base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map'
...bsp: 'base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.bsp'
Error: file 'base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map' doesn't exist
$ ls -la base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28356 Dec 13 01:16 base/maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map

===== Comments Ported from Sourceforge =====

====== aduke1 (2012-12-12 23:21:58.345000) ======

Afaik you have to leave out the 'base/', that is
ufo2map maps/ufocrash/uc_h08.map
====== techtonik (2012-12-12 23:26:54.147000) ======

Leaving out the 'base/' works, but why? It seems illogical to me.
====== aduke1 (2012-12-12 23:57:44.877000) ======

It IS illogical, but that's our strange filesystem :(
But afaik that's the same on Windows. Did you try that ?
====== techtonik (2012-12-13 00:13:16.327000) ======

I can't see the error message on Windows (nothing at all), but it should fix the problem for me personally.

Is it possible to fix ufo2map to be able to specify full path to .map file?
====== aduke1 (2012-12-13 00:16:04.626000) ======

I pass that on to tlh2000...
====== aduke1 (2012-12-13 00:16:26.835000) ======

- **assigned_to**: Martin Gerhardy

====== tlh2000 (2012-12-14 08:09:44.880000) ======

everything is using the virtual filesystem in ufoai - to be able to work with mods and user data. And no, this won't change. But we should fix the uforadiant support for ufo2map (which is a different ticket somewhere on the tracker)
====== techtonik (2012-12-14 09:46:14.956000) ======

Does ufo2map need mods and user data to compile?
Is it possible to make a user helper by just parsing parameters correctly?