commit 7bf12712a8aa2556fdb023c69bbf51d727a17b90 Author: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com> Date: Wed Aug 24 03:10:31 2011 -0400 [2525 Linux] Handle being launched using a symlink --- src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh b/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh index fd8ed0c..1321e0c 100755 --- a/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh +++ b/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh @@ -103,9 +103,24 @@ if [ -z "$XAUTHORITY" ]; then export XAUTHORITY fi +# If this script is being run through a symlink, we need to know where +# in the filesystem the script itself is, not where the symlink is. +myname="$0" +while [ -L "$myname" ]; do + # XXX readlink is not POSIX, but is present in GNU coreutils + # and on FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the -f option (which follows + # a whole chain of symlinks until it reaches a non-symlink + # path name) is a GNUism, so we can't safely use it. (Using + # it would be rude to FreeBSD users who currently have no + # other officially supported choice than TBB for Linux, and + # might even break compatibility with older versions of the + # GNU utility.) + myname="`readlink -n "$myname"`" +done + # Try to be agnostic to where we're being started from, chdir to where # the script is. -mydir="$(dirname "$0")" +mydir="$(dirname "$myname")" test -d "$mydir" && cd "$mydir" # If ${PWD} results in a zero length HOME, we can try something else...