[Bf-committers] Blender-2.55 has no menu bar

[Dave Plater]

On 10/31/2010 08:29 PM, blendenzo wrote:
> Oh, sorry.  I guess this is related to ~/.blender, since the 2.54 and 
> 2.55 folders do end up in ~/.blender.  Would it be helpful for you to 
> see a directory tree of my ~/.blender folder on Linux Mint?
>
> On 10/31/2010 02:25 PM, blendenzo wrote:
>   
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I experienced a very similar error on Linux Mint, and it was not related
>> to the ~/.blender folder.  When the versioning changed from 2.54 to
>> 2.55, cmake was not properly updating the scripts folders.
>> Specifically, the folder /blender/2.54 should now be /blender/2.55,
>> since Blender is now looking for the UI scripts in the 2.55 folder.  I
>> deleted the /blender/2.54 folder, but cmake did not replace it.  In the
>> end, I had to delete the entire build and build from scratch and this
>> solved the problem.
>>
>> Are you building fresh or building on top of a previous 2.54 build?  If
>> you are building on a previous build, I think this could be what is
>> causing the problem.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 10/30/2010 09:56 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
>>    
>>     
>>> Hi, I've opened Blender 2.5 Bug Tracker item #24454 for the lack of menu
>>> bar when I run blender. I built it with the following configuration :
>>> cmake ../ -DWITH_FFTW3:BOOL=on -DWITH_JACK:BOOL=on
>>> -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA:BOOL=on -DWITH_PLAYER:BOOL=off
>>> -DWITH_SNDFILE:BOOL=on -DOPENCOLLADA=/usr
>>> -DOPENCOLLADA_LIBPATH=/usr/lib64 -DOPENCOLLADA_INC=/usr/include
>>> -DWITH_PYTHON_INSTALL:BOOL=off -DWITH_PYTHON:BOOL=off
>>>    -DWITH_IMAGE_OPENJPEG:BOOL=off -DWITH_FFMPEG:BOOL=off
>>> -DWITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC:BOOL=off '-DPYTHON_LIB=/usr/lib64}/libpython3.1.so'
>>>    -DPYTHON_INC=/usr/include/python3.1 '-GUnix Makefiles'
>>> -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=on
>>>    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr
>>>
>>> In the past this has been caused by the contents of ~/.blender but this
>>> time I've tried various things including using the .blender contents from :
>>> blender-2.54-beta-linux-glibc27-x86_64.tar.bz2
>>> and I still have no menu bar.
>>> Can somebody please give me a clue where to look, especially what
>>> blender expects to find in .blender.
>>> Thanks
>>> Dave Plater
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>       
I've come to the conclusion that the /usr/share/blender/2.55 folder has
to be copied to ~/.blender but I've still got no menus. This is a clean
chrooted rpmbuild build and I've deleted and recreated .blender many
times. A view of your ~/.blender directory tree would be much appreciated.
Regards
Dave P