Re: [Help-gnunet] Malformed configuration file

[Christian Grothoff]

On 02/08/2014 08:03 PM, Doug wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>    Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply. I'm stoked that this is an
> alpha+ quality project; indeed, I'm eager to contribute where I can.
> 
>    My output of
>      $ set | grep GNUNET
> is:
> 
> GNUNET_PREFIX=/home/<user-name>/Applications/ThirdParty/gnunet-0.10.0/
> And I have never manually set this environment variable. I guess it
> was set by the build/install?

I'm not sure how it could be.  'make check' sets it internally, but that
was done after 0.10.0.  There might have been some instructions for you
to set it in the README (for 'make check'), so maybe it was left from
you following those instructions (but slightly differently, as the
value you were supposed to set was not to that directory either...).
Anyway, glad to hear it explained & fixed the problem.

>    Exporting GNUNET_PREFIX=/usr/local/ in my /home/<user-name>/.bashrc
> has fixed the WARNING and ERROR. Yea!
> 
>    I was using "$HOME" in this email as an abbreviation to keep from
> broadcasting my user-name to this list. The directory
> "/home/<user-name>/Applications/ThirdParty/" is just where I put and
> build downloaded code, so it's where I built gnunet and all the other
> dependencies.

Sure, maybe use $USER next time ;-).

>    Perhaps adding a hint to the build instructions will save you time
> answering this same question in the future?

As the need to set GNUNET_PREFIX for 'make check' has changed since 0.10,
I hope  we already updated the respective documentation (but it is always
possible we missed some).  Generally I of course try to update instructions
whenever problems / questions arise.

> Thanks Again, and keep up the great work,

You're welcome.

-Christian