[solved] hash directory missing when installing lr-mess binary

Folly

Today I installed a fresh lr-mess binary on a fresh OS.
I was trying out my earlier discovered manual lr-mess commands in the cli.
I found that my commands didn't work.
After a good search I found that the hash directory for lr-mess is missing here :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame

The RetroPie-Setup log says :

cp: cannot stat '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/hash': No such file or directory

I found that there is no hash directory in the lr-mess.tar.gz file that is downloaded from the RetroPie server.

DTEAM

@folly

I know. It's always like that for all versions. You have to cut and paste from the MAME hash folder or from the last MESS version on the Net. I don't know why it's not included with lr-Mess and it's included with MAME standalone on Retropie.

It's like lr-MAME. The official one contain non-arcade stuff. On Retropie it's only the Arcade part. I never tested lr-MAME for console.

Folly

@dteam

I never had this problem before.
I think because I always copy my old BIOS directory to the new OS.
Not doing that now revealed this problem.

I copied it now too.

But basically it's an issue because the scriptmodule of lr-mess is programmed to copy the hash files.
So I think they are missing.

Folly

@dteam

Besides mame and lr-mess are not in sync with the versions.
So copying it from mame then we will have a slight mismatch.

mitu

I'll take a look. It's probably because lr-mess was meant to be a source only install and the hash was never included in the binary install.

Folly

@mitu

Indeed that's probably the reason.

Thanks for looking at it ;-)

mitu

@folly Thanks for reporting. I have added a fix for the error, but the solution will work next time the binaries will be rebuilt (otherwise the hash folder will not be included).
Check again tomorrow if a binary update is available, since building those packages from source takes some time.

Folly

@mitu

Thanks for the effort.
I will check it later.

Folly

@mitu

It's working perfectly after updating the RetroPie-Setup script and installing lr-mess from the binary again !