firefox artsdsp problem

[Philip Lijnzaad <p.lijnzaad@med.uu.nl>]

Dear all, 

on my ubuntu breezy, firefox won't start due to a problem in /usr/bin/firefox 
or /usr/bin/artsdsp (depending on how you define it). Problem is that the 
firefox wrapper scripts passes an absolute pathname 
(/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin) to artsdsp, whereas artsdsp does a 
lookup using which (1), which will of course fail. The user sees this:

no /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin 
in /home/philip/perl:/home/philip/sh:/home/philip/utils:/home/philip/privutils:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/philip/Linux/bin:/opt/cxoffice/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/etc:/usr/etc:.:/home/philip/bin
Usage: file [-bcikLnNsvz] [-f namefile] [-F separator] [-m magicfiles] file...
       file -C -m magicfiles
Try `file --help' for more information.
BASH=/bin/sh
BASH_ARGC=([0]="3")
BASH_ARGV=([0]="firefox" [1]="-a" [2]="/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin")
BASH_LINENO=([0]="0")
BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/usr/bin/artsdsp")
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="00" [2]="16" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i486-pc-linux-gnu")
BASH_VERSION='3.00.16(1)-release'


etc. 

I am using libarts1c2 1.5.0 (1.5.0-0ubuntu0breezy1) and 
firefox 1.0.7 (1.0.7-0ubuntu20). 

I have appended a trivial patch for artsdsp that solves the problem; I hope 
you find this useful.  Kind regards,

                                                                       Philip

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Philip Lijnzaad
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Dept. of Biomedical Genetics
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*** artsdsp~	Thu Dec  1 11:32:29 2005
--- artsdsp	Thu Dec  1 11:32:23 2005
***************
*** 91,98 ****
  
  # setup artsdsp preload to hijack calls made to /dev/dsp
  origargs="$@"
! binary=`which $1`
! 
  machine=`uname -m`
  
  set `file -L $binary`
--- 91,101 ----
  
  # setup artsdsp preload to hijack calls made to /dev/dsp
  origargs="$@"
! if [ -x "$1" ]; then
!   binary="$1";
! else 
!   binary=`which $1`
! fi
  machine=`uname -m`
  
  set `file -L $binary`