dev branch does not want to work without config file

[LongnoseRob]

I build DW on alpine yesterday from the dev-branch, while i had no issues with building it on arm(32bit), there seems to be an issue with the config:
I just wanted to quickly test DW from the shell without config file, I get the following messge:

$ direwolf -n 1 -r 48000 -b 16 udp:7355 
Dire Wolf version 1.7 (Oct  5 2023) BETA TEST 7
Includes optional support for:  dns-sd
ERROR - Could not open config file /home/xyz/direwolf.conf
Try using -c command line option for alternate location.
See online documentation:
    stable release:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/master/doc
    development version:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/dev/doc
    additional topics:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf-doc

Adding a -B 1200 does not change anything.

Is this behaviour intended?

Same probnlem also on a slighrtly older build on my desktop:

$ direwolf -n 1 -r 48000 -b 16 udp:7355 
Dire Wolf DEVELOPMENT version 1.7 G (Jun 25 2023)
Includes optional support for:  hamlib cm108-ptt dns-sd
ERROR - Could not open config file /home/xyz/direwolf.conf
Try using -c command line option for alternate location.
See online documentation:
    stable release:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/master/doc
    development version:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/dev/doc
    additional topics:    https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf-doc

[wb2osz]

It really wants a configuration file. This is intentional.
Two workarounds would be:
(1) Create an empty file. "touch direwolf.conf" or
(2) Specify the null device. "direwolf -c /dev/null"

73,
John WB2OSZ

[LongnoseRob]

Understood,
Thank you, 73