Unneeded files in the git repository

[yo2loj]

Please take care not no place system specific files in the repository, since they get created on build:

• in libexec: *.o, lzhuf (the linux binary and object files)
• in share: *.1.gz (compressed manual pages), mapdownloader.desktop (not available anymore)

The best solution is to add these files to .gitignore, so they don't appear again: .[oa] ~ *.1.gz lzhuf

[yo2loj]

Solved in #53

[maurizioandreotti]

Hi, after pulling in local the last commit to remove uncessary files i get the followin error related to missing lzhuf.

I guess it would be sorted out making linux install of d-rats once downloaded?

for me, I can fix re-adding locally the lzhuf locally where i need it to develop, but i think this will create questions from all people that currently use d-rats simply downloading the code and execute it.... i fear people will ask and need to be supported

wl2k : Found data at 37 wl2k : Reading data block 250 bytes wl2k : Reading at 289 wl2k : Found data at 289 wl2k : Reading data block 49 bytes wl2k : Reading at 340 wl2k : Found eof at 340 wl2k : Got data: 299 bytes Exception in thread Thread-10: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 605, in run result = self._run_incoming() File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 564, in _run_incoming count = wl.get_messages() File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 374, in get_messages msg.read_from_socket(self._conn) File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 251, in read_from_socket self.content = self.decode_lzhuf(data) File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 118, in decode_lzhuf return run_lzhuf_decode(data) File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 83, in run_lzhuf_decode return run_lzhuf("d", data[2:]) File "/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/d_rats/wl2k.py", line 66, in run_lzhuf shutil.copy(os.path.abspath(lzhuf_path), cwd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 139, in copy copyfile(src, dst) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 96, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc: IOError: [Errno 2] File o directory non esistente: '/home/pi/D-Rats-Ev-Master/libexec/lzhuf'

[yo2loj]

Under linux, the code for lzhuf is built when doing 'python setup.py build' and is specific for each computer architecture, and then it is copyed in the proper directory during install. But for this, you need a working gcc environment installed, (and write access to the libexec folder, which sould be ok). It is not acceptable to put a specific version of the binary file in the repository and then expect it to work on every machine. The only option is to build it on the target machine itself.