[Geany] Ubuntu package of geanylua?

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Mon Aug 31 16:48:13 UTC 2009


On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:26:39 +0200
Joerg Desch <jd.vvd at web.de> wrote:

> > On Monday 31,August,2009 02:24 PM, Joerg Desch wrote:
> > There has to be some stray file somewhere that does not belong to the
> > package, IMHO.
> 
> $ strace geany 2>&1 | grep open | grep geanylua
> open("/usr/lib/geany/geanylua.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
> open("/home/jd/.config/geany/plugins/geanylua/libgeanylua.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
> 
> GREAT! You are right.

Oops, I just checked the code and I'd missed that the support library
is given that directory to check first.

Not sure whether to change the behaviour, besides adding a message
showing the support library path.

> I have a unison sync script which keeps my desktops and my laptop in sync! And here was the problem. I have an old geany configuration (~/.geany) which was moved into .config/geany and than synced to my desktops. After removing this old plugin, all installations are up and running.
> 
> Thank you for the help!
> 
> By the way... May be it would be a good idea if geany warns while migrating the .geany directory it contains shared libs!

Well, users may have put plugins there that they want.

Regards,
Nick



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