Bug#349005: artsdsp supposed to work for shell scripts

[Fathi Boudra <fabo@debian.org>]

> I still can't see the reason why artsdsp does not work if you call
> shellscripts (for example: realplayer) with it. Probably I'm just
> missing somethign here.

artsdsp is a script.
The error message "artsdsp works only for binaries" comes from the file check:

# setup artsdsp preload to hijack calls made to /dev/dsp
origargs="$@"
binary=`which $1`
machine=`uname -m`

set `file -L $binary`

case $2 in
    ELF)
       ;;
    *)
       echo "artsdsp works only for binaries"
       exit 1
    esac

The check fails for wrapper script:

file -L /usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox: POSIX shell script text executable

file -L /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

a possible workaround is to use readlink.

I don't have realplayer but I'll bet this is a similar trick.

cheers,

Fathi