[GROOVY-3372] groovy cannot find startGroovy if the groovy executable is a symlink

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: command line processing
• Environment: all *NIX/POSIX
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Greg Orlowski
• Created: 23/Feb/09 00:01
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:43

Description

A lot of people like to create symlinks to executable binaries or scripts. For example, many linux systems use the alternatives system to symlink

/usr/bin/progname -> /etc/alternatives/progname -> /path/to/progname

Currently, groovy does not support this option. If I have:

$ ls -l /home/greg/bin/groovy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 40 2009-02-22 22:49 /home/greg/bin/groovy -> /home/greg/opt/groovy/current/bin/groovy

And I try to run:

$ groovy -e 'print("HELLO GROOVY")'

1. 1. 1. I get:
         .: 28: Can't open /home/greg/bin/startGroovy

A simple fix would be (adapted from the jruby startup script):
------------------------------
1c1
< #!/bin/sh
—
> #!/bin/ksh
15a16,29
> get_dirname()
>

{ > PRG=$0 > while [ -h "$PRG" ]; do > link=`expr "$(ls -l $PRG)" : '.*-> \(.*\)'` > if expr "$link" : '/' > /dev/null; then > PRG=$link > else > PRG="`dirname $PRG`/$link" > fi > done > echo -n `dirname $PRG` > }

>
17c31
< DIRNAME=`dirname "$0"`
—
> DIRNAME=`get_dirname $0`
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The above was tested in bash, dash and pdksh.

Ideally, the same patch would be applied to groovyc and groovysh as well