[gobolinux-users] Wine 0.9.0: wineprefixcreate error ...incompatible with gobolinux

[hisham.hm at gmail.com]

On 7/4/07, Anshuman Aggarwal <anshuman at brillgene.com> wrote:
> Here is the error:
>
> $ wineprefixcreate
> /System/Links/Executables/wineprefixcreate=/System/Links/Executables/wineprefixcreate
> cp: cannot stat `/System/Links/Executables/../share/wine/wine.inf': No
> such file or directory
>
> I've traced it to this point in the wineprefixcreate script:
> --------------------------------
> cat wineprefixcreate:
>
> }
>
> set -e
>
> bindir=""
> echo "$0="$0
> case "$0" in
>   */*)
>     # $0 contains a path, use it
>     bindir=`dirname "$0"`
>     ;;
>   *)
>     # no directory in $0, search in PATH
>     saved_ifs=$IFS
>     IFS=:
>     for d in $PATH
>     do
>       IFS=$saved_ifs
>       if [ -x "$d/$0" ]
>       then
>         bindir="$d"
>         break
>       fi
>     done
>     ;;
> esac
>
> bindir=`cd "$bindir" && pwd`
> dlldir="$bindir/../lib/wine"
> datadir="$bindir/../share/wine"
>
> -------------------------
> Question is: what is the right solution for this? Obviously the
> gobostructure is not working for this script...
> Do we patch the script or is there a solution we can send upstream?

Their script fails whenever the binary is symlinked. A fix for
upstream would be to add

bindir=`readlink "$bindir"`

right after esac. In the mean time, we should add that to a patch.

-- Hisham