Output the error message on fallback restart execs (sf.net patch

#1475213). Thanks Jonas Koelker, jonaskoelker at users.sourceforge.net.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3bad7b4..24faf6a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 (Format: Year/Month/Day)
 Changes for 0.9.16:
+*06/04/25:
+   * Output the error message on fallback restart execs (sf patch#1475213)
+     (Thanks Jonas Kölker, jonaskoelker at users.sourceforge.net).
+     main.cc     
 *06/04/24:
    * Use -Wall when --enable-debug and some warning fixes 
      (Simon + thanks Jonas Koelker)
diff --git a/src/main.cc b/src/main.cc
index b458fbf..00bc163 100644
--- a/src/main.cc
+++ b/src/main.cc
@@ -312,7 +312,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
         // fall back in case the above execlp doesn't work
         execvp(argv[0], argv);
-        execvp(FbTk::StringUtil::basename(argv[0]).c_str(), argv);
+        perror(argv[0]);
+
+        const char *basename = FbTk::StringUtil::basename(argv[0]).c_str();
+        execvp(basename, argv);
+        perror(basename);
     }
 
     return exitcode;