From a59e64f1d8b80452ba8725382735e7111c15d2d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:14:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Catch XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not an absolute path

see https://discourse.ardour.org/t/glib-converterror-arch-linux/109362
---
 libs/ardour/audio_library.cc | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libs/ardour/audio_library.cc b/libs/ardour/audio_library.cc
index c9ada69fa0..71d143fc6a 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/audio_library.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/audio_library.cc
@@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ AudioLibrary::AudioLibrary ()
 
 	sfdb_file_path = Glib::build_filename (sfdb_file_path, sfdb_file_name);
 
-	src = Glib::filename_to_uri (sfdb_file_path);
+	try {
+		src = Glib::filename_to_uri (sfdb_file_path);
+	} catch (Glib::ConvertError const& err) {
+		fatal << string_compose (_("Could not get config folder: %1"), err.what ()) << endmsg;
+		abort (); /*NOTREACHED*/
+	}
 
 	// workaround for possible bug in raptor that crashes when saving to a
 	// non-existant file.