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


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