1.7.0 game doesnt load addons if they are symlinked

[Hahmach]

worked perfectly fine in 1.6.*

i store downloaded addons in separate folder and symlink them on demand into ~/.t-engine/4.0/addons/.

[darkgod]

Log please

[Hahmach]

does steam version create any logs besides te4_log_web? cant find any.

gonna try with te4.org version

[darkgod]

You can run it on the command line and capture output: ./t-engine > log

[Hahmach]

ah, just stdout.

i opened the game, opened addons menu, closed the game.

still log is over 1k lines.

https://dpaste.com/FH3LRJ2H3.txt

[Hahmach]

i downloaded 1.6.7 from the site and it doesnt load symlinked addons either. but 1.6.7 from steam did.

[Hahmach]

i pulled 1.6.7 from steam betas and it doesnt work there anymore too.

[darkgod]

Hum? something must have changed on your end then, the "beta" steam branch for 1.6.7 and the version that was the public one while 1.6.7 was current are the same.
Not the same as in "uploaded the same thing", but the same as in "simply tagged the upload"; they are literally the same files :/

[Hahmach]

i dont know what changed, but it doesnt even work with clean profile. i removed ~/.t-engine, launched the game to recreate it, symlinked some addons - the game doesnt see them.

[Hahmach]

i checked on multiple other machines/versions and none of them have symlinked addons working. so i guess the fact that it was working for me is an anomaly.

[Hahmach]

symlink support has to be enabled explicitly with PHYSFS_permitSymbolicLinks(1)

[Hahmach]

is there any reason not to enable this? *no, this functionality has nothing to do with symlink vulnerabilities inside archives*