From d788af28b7c07bc8357a8d15d1d011540382d828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Toniolo <10792599+grandixximo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:22:40 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(scripts): report missing INI file before parse check

inivalue parse check ran before the file-existence check, so a
nonexistent INI file was reported as "The INI-file contains errors
that need to be fixed". Move the existence check ahead of the parse
check and drop the now-redundant later copy.
---
 scripts/linuxcnc.in | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/linuxcnc.in b/scripts/linuxcnc.in
index 789b9de0eca..39b7718e2b4 100644
--- a/scripts/linuxcnc.in
+++ b/scripts/linuxcnc.in
@@ -406,6 +406,14 @@ function run_applications () {
     done
 }
 
+# Make sure the INI file exists before trying to parse it. Otherwise a
+# missing file would be reported as a file with errors.
+if [ ! -f "$INIFILE" ] ; then
+    echo "Could not find INI file '$INIFILE'"
+    trap '' EXIT
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 # Test whether we have a valid INI-file that can be parsed without error.
 # Running inivalue without section/variable filter should return the value of
 # the first variable in the first section of the file. If that fails, there is
@@ -422,14 +430,6 @@ export PATH=$CONFIG_DIR/bin:$PATH
 [ -z "$RUNTESTS" ] && echo "Machine configuration directory is '$INI_DIR'"
 echo "Machine configuration file is '$INI_NAME'"
 
-# make sure INI file exists (the tcl script just did this, so we could 
-# eliminate this test, but it does no harm)
-
-if [ ! -f "$INIFILE" ] ; then
-    echo "Could not find INI file '$INIFILE'"
-    trap '' EXIT
-    exit 1
-fi
 echo INIFILE="$INIFILE" >> "$PRINT_FILE"
 
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