[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 119324] New: chdir (cd) fails when starting from certain symbolic links

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119324

            Bug ID: 119324
           Summary: chdir (cd) fails when starting from certain symbolic
                    links
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: billmoss at acm.org

When Libreoffice installs, a symbolic link is created from /usr/bin/libreoffice
to /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice. This works fine. However, Debian
stretch and Devuan ASCII both created an additional link,
/usr/bin/X11/libreoffice. This link does not work due to how the back end
script handles the symbolic link that is $0. I simply replaced the funky loop
that resolves the symlink with 
if false
then
    original loop
else
   sd_res="$( readlink -e "$sd_res" )"
fi
I could have simplified it even further but a four line change allows me to
quickly alter the script in the future. To make things even more secure, I
mv soffice soffice.def
The modified script was named soffice.mod
ln -s soffice.mod soffice

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