one can try readlink and fall back to the thing that breaks under unusual circumstances only if its not there. But for ubuntu/debian we don't even need to care, we have readlink in coreutils.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1141106 Title: usr/bin/libreoffice script bad symlink following Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Debian: New Bug description: 1:4.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2 content of usr/bin/libreoffice: sd_cwd=`pwd` sd_res=$0 while [ -h "$sd_res" ] ; do cd "`dirname "$sd_res"`" sd_basename=`basename "$sd_res"` sd_res=`ls -l "$sd_basename" | sed "s/.*$sd_basename -> //g"` done cd "`dirname "$sd_res"`" sd_prog=`pwd` cd "$sd_cwd" sd_res is a symlink in ubuntu so it goes in there please use something sane like readlink to get the target instead of that weird sed line a user in #ubuntu+1 reports issues with it because he apparently has some invalid locale in the month part of ls -l: he gets: 02:04 <Allard> /usr/bin/libreoffice: 49: cd: can't cd to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 ���../lib/libreoffice/program 02:04 <Allard> /usr/bin/libreoffice: 156: exec: /usr/bin/oosplash: not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1141106/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
