Remove absolute paths from bochs configuration file

[inuyasha82]

i.e. vgaromimage romimage

[ghost]

It depends on the location of DreamOs folder, it can be anywhere so relative paths cannot be used in universal way. Maybe, do you mean using some script variable?

[inuyasha82]

Emily it is obvious that depend on the location of Dreamos (and anyway it depens mainly on the location of bochs), my idea is to add in the readme a suggested path for bochs and dreamos and use a relative path to that default location, or maybe when you launch start.sh it will set an Environment variable with Bochs location, or look for it programmatically, I still have to decide.

[ghost]

We could redistribute vgaromimage and romimage bochs in dreamos folder?

[inuyasha82]

I don't think is a good idea. I don't want to add binary files to the repository if not really necessary (and in this case this is not necessary)

[ghost]

Ok

[ghost]

If we want to use "locate" command, i made a small script that could be integrated in start.sh.

sh sample

#!/bin/sh
SEARCH=$(locate BIOS-bochs-latest)
OLD_IFS=$IFS     # save internal field separator
IFS='
'                # set it to newline
set -- $SEARCH   # make the result positional parameters
IFS=$OLD_IFS     # restore IFS
ROMIMAGE=$1
SEARCH=$(locate VGABIOS-lgpl-latest)
OLD_IFS=$IFS     # save internal field separator
IFS='
'                # set it to newline
set -- $SEARCH   # make the result positional parameters
IFS=$OLD_IFS     # restore IFS
VGAROMIMAGE=$1
echo $ROMIMAGE
echo $VGAROMIMAGE

Bash sample

#!/bin/bash

SEARCH=$(locate BIOS-bochs-latest)

IFS=$'\n' read -ra OUTPUT <<< "$SEARCH"
ROMIMAGE="${OUTPUT[0]}"

SEARCH=$(locate VGABIOS-lgpl-latest)

IFS=$'\n' read -ra OUTPUT <<< "$SEARCH"
VGAROMIMAGE="${OUTPUT[0]}"

echo $ROMIMAGE
echo $VGAROMIMAGE

ROMIMAGE and VGAROMIMAGE has got the first entry containing files we need. This solution needs 'updatedb' to be issued, to be sure that index db is updated.

[ghost]

I did the script to fully work making sed in .bochsrc file. Tell me what do you think about this script