Re: Location of darrc on windows

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On 16/11/2020 23:00, VA wrote:
> Hello,

Hi VA,

>
> I was trying to customize /etc/darrc file in downloaded windows
> binaries installation, but seems like the file is not read by dar.
> Here is how I tested it with the stock file trying to use target
> 'bell':
>
> C:\Users\vladimir>C:\bin\dar64-2.6.13-win64\dar.exe bell Parse
> error: Given user target(s) could not be found: bell

first, there was a bug in release 2.6.12 and probably a few other
releases before it, that lead dar to look for /darrc instead of
/etc/darrc (the default) or $sysconfdir/darrc when the variable
sysconfdir is manually set using --sysconfdir=<dir> or --prefix=<dir>
while runnning the ./configure script before compiling dar/libdar.

But, I did a test to be sure: creating a directory with a very
specific name "ABCDEFGHIJKL", then from its parent directory I backed
it up with dar:

> dar -c backup -g ABCDEFGHIJKL

then I change to a random directory and restored the backup to / with

"C:\...\path to dar\dar\dar.exe" -x ../path/to/backup -R /

I always get the ABCDEFGHIJKL directory created in the parent
directory of the one where is located the dar.exe binary.

However putting there an etc\darrc file does not let the "bell" target
being available... I must dig into that as it seems related to the way
dar binary has been built under Cygwin...

In the meanwhile you still have -B option to point to the darrc file,
and this works according to the tests I did.

>
> According to cygwin FAQ
> (https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.multiple-copies):
>
> 'Each Cygwin DLL on the machine constitutes a Cygwin installation,
> with the directory the Cygwin DLL resides in treated as "/bin", the
> parent directory as "/".'
>
> So I presume the /etc/darrc should be places in parent directory
> of dar.exe, but that did not work either, as well as moving it to
> root directory of the windows drive.

Yes, it should, but the path to darrc seems to not follow this rule
>
> Any advice?

let me a few days to find the time to dig into that, will be back to
you shortly

>
> Thanks, Vladimir
>

Cheers,
Denis
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