Appimage chdir'ing so relative paths doesn't work
Dirk Hohndel
dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Jan 8 10:30:28 PST 2017
> On Jan 8, 2017, at 09:38, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I was about to test some stuff with the appimage-build and noted:
>
> strace -e chdir,open ./Subsurface-4.6-Beta-2-x86_64.AppImage testdata/ostc4.xml |& grep -E 'ostc|chdir'
> chdir("/tmp/.mount_xyn3Tx") = 0
> chdir("usr") = 0
> open("testdata/ostc4.xml", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
>
> The chdir'ing might make sense in some case, but in this case it really
> doesn't.
I think it needs to chdir in order to find its libraries, but I haven't looked
at this in enough detail.
Simon, any comment on that?
/D
More information about the subsurface
mailing list