Stephan that makes sense.
In my perl script I use open anyway, and I will look at a function for command line use Thank you again. el Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad mini 4 On 11 Oct 2018, 07:04 +0200, Stephan Witt <[email protected]>, wrote: > Am 10.10.2018 um 23:45 schrieb Dr Eberhard W Lisse <[email protected]>: > > > > Stephan, > > > > thank you. > > > > I use lyx from the command line a lot and have symlinked > > /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx to /usr/local/bin. Using the > > symlink it crashes, using the full path it works. > > I see. > > > Is it reproducible with the symlink? And if so would that be considered > > a bug? > > See > https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/RunpathDependentLibraries.html > > I’d say you shouldn’t use a pure symlink. Create a shell script instead > and set the environment up to prepare the proper functioning. Perhaps > it works for you only by using the wrapper script… The binary cannot > correctly determine the location of the frameworks it should use > if you fool it by your symlink. It’s all about security. > > Stephan
