[Libreoffice] About InstallationFinder (sdk, Java), an API question.

[Fridrich Strba]

Hi, Guiseppe,

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 22:41 +0200, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
>  From what I understand, in OOo the class is used to look for the path
> where OOo is installed and from there obtaining the URE path.
> 
> In OOo it works using the symlink:
> 
> $ ls -l $(which soffice)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2010-07-05 10:59 /usr/bin/soffice ->
> /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
> 
> But in LibO that symlink is:
> 
> $ ls -l $(which libreoffice)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-10-05 17:35 /usr/bin/libreoffice ->
> /usr/bin/libreoffice3
> 
> That's the reason why I'm not sure whether it works.
> For the InstallationFinder to work in LibO, the symlink should be
> something as:
> 
> /usr/bin/libreoffice -> /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice
> 
> The soffice that, I think, you are referring to, will stay the same.

The little hurdle is that the /opt/libreoffice3/program/soffice is a
script that sets some environment and launches `basename $0`.bin. As it
is it will break saying that there is
no /opt/libreoffice3/program/libreoffice.bin
This could work, only one would need to modify that script that first
looks for `basename $0`.bin and if it does not find it, looks for
soffice.bin. If a volunteer could do it in desktop/scripts/soffice.sh in
a posix compliant way that does not break anything on exotic platforms,
it would just be wonderful. I might just hardcode soffice.bin there for
the time being.

Cheers

Fridrich