2017-01-08 19:30 GMT+01:00 Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]>: >> On Jan 8, 2017, at 09:38, Anton Lundin <[email protected]> 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.
The chdir is required only in cases in which binaries are not relocatable at runtime (i.e., "/usr" is hardcoded at compile time, for example for loading resources). If this is not the case (e.g., in the case of Subsurface), then we should get away without chdir'ing. _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
