Updating the `settings.ini` file to refer to a new config folder path doesn't appear to work, even after generation

[keck-in-space]

F´ Version	4.1.1
Affected Component	Build System

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Problem Description

Unable to reconfigure F Prime when setting the config directory to a custom location with the settings.ini file.

Context / Environment

Execute fprime-util version-check and share the output.

Operating System: Linux
CPU Architecture: x86_64
Platform: Linux-6.8.0-90-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Python version: 3.10.12
CMake version: 3.26.0
Pip version: 25.3
Pip packages:
    fprime-tools==4.1.0
    fprime-gds==4.1.0
    fprime-fpp==3.1.0
Project submodules:
    https://github.com/nasa/fprime.git @ v4.1.1

How to Reproduce

1. fprime-bootstrap project, accept defaults
2. cd my-fprime-project
3. source fprime-venv/bin/activate
4. fprime-util new --deployment, accept defaults
5. cp -r lib/fprime/default/config .
6. make the settings.ini file look like this:

[fprime]
project_root: .
framework_path: ./lib/fprime
config_directory: ./config

default_cmake_options:  FPRIME_ENABLE_FRAMEWORK_UTS=OFF
                        FPRIME_ENABLE_AUTOCODER_UTS=OFF

7. fprime-util generate
8. modify the config/FpConstants.fpp file to set the following variable: constant FW_CMD_STRING_MAX_SIZE = 100
9. fprime-util build -j$(nproc)
10. fprime-gds
11. send this command: FileHandling.fileDownlink.SendFile, "thisfilepathislongerthanthedefaultof40characters", "dest"
12. see error: FileHandling.fileDownlink.SendFile completed with error FORMAT_ERROR

Expected Behavior

The command should not result in a FORMAT_ERROR since the FW_CMD_STRING_MAX_SIZE was set to 100, and the desired file path is only 49 characters.

[thomas-bc]

There are known issues with naming the custom config directory config/. Can you try renaming it to something else, e.g. CustomConfig/ or something?

[keck-in-space]

Thanks. Here's what I tried:

1. mv config CustomConfig
2. Edited settings.ini to appear as below:

[fprime]
project_root: .
framework_path: ./lib/fprime
config_directory: ./CustomConfig

default_cmake_options:  FPRIME_ENABLE_FRAMEWORK_UTS=OFF
                        FPRIME_ENABLE_AUTOCODER_UTS=OFF

3. fprime-util purge && fprime-util generate && fprime-util build -j$(nproc)
4. fprime-gds
5. sent this command: FileHandling.fileDownlink.SendFile, "thisfilepathislongerthanthedefaultof40characters", "dest"

Unfortunately I still see the same error: FileHandling.fileDownlink.SendFile completed with error FORMAT_ERROR