Re: [Libreoffice] About InstallationFinder (sdk, Java), an API question.

Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Hi, Guiseppe,
>
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 22:41 +0200, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
> >  From what I understand, in OOo the class is used to look for the path
> > where OOo is installed and from there obtaining the URE path.
> >
> > In OOo it works using the symlink:
> >
> > $ ls -l $(which soffice)
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2010-07-05 10:59 /usr/bin/soffice ->
> > /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
> >
> > But in LibO that symlink is:
> >
> > $ ls -l $(which libreoffice)
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-10-05 17:35 /usr/bin/libreoffice ->
> > /usr/bin/libreoffice3
> >
> > That's the reason why I'm not sure whether it works.
> > For the InstallationFinder to work in LibO, the symlink should be
> > something as:
> >
> > /usr/bin/libreoffice -> /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice
> >
> > The soffice that, I think, you are referring to, will stay the same.
>
> The little hurdle is that the /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice is a
> script that sets some environment and launches `basename $0`.bin. As it
> is it will break saying that there is
> no /opt/libreoffice3/program/libreoffice.bin
> This could work, only one would need to modify that script that first
> looks for `basename $0`.bin and if it does not find it, looks for
> soffice.bin. If a volunteer could do it in desktop/scripts/soffice.sh in
> a posix compliant way that does not break anything on exotic platforms,
> it would just be wonderful. I might just hardcode soffice.bin there for
> the time being.

I see, I don't have sufficient experience above POSIX compiance of the 
'sed' expression below, but the only thing that I came up with was:

-sd_binary=`basename "$0"`.bin
+sd_binary=`basename "$0" | sed 's/libreoffice/soffice/g'`.bin

and then adjust symlink accordingly:

/usr/bin/libreoffice =--> /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice
/usr/bin/libreoffice3 =--> /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice

Giuseppe.
--
Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
beppec56 at openoffice.org