Arch Linux

Hi
, I downloaded the package slimboat 1.1.52-1. I got makepkg to complete after changing the mdsum in the slimboat.install file as described in the comments. I installed the package using pacman -U as described. When I ran slimboat, it went into a loop creating multiple instances of the slimboat startup script (/usr/bin/slimboat) the reason for this is as follows:-

1) /usr/bin/slimboat is just a link to /opt/slimboat/slimboat.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 27 12:08 /usr/bin/slimboat -> /opt/slimboat/slimboat.sh

2) the end result of executing slimboat.sh is the execution of "/usr/bin/slimboat" i.e. a call back to /opt/slimboat/slimboat.sh, giving an infinite loop.


The slimboat.sh scripts uses dirname to extract an directory name to use to call the slimboat executable which resides in /opt/slimboat. However, dirname returns "/usr/bin" and not "/opt/slimboat". This is because although /opt/slimboat/slimboat.sh is executed the $0 parameter (used to acquire the directory name) is "/usr/bin/slimboat", presumably because a link is used.

Replacing the link /usr/bin/slimboat with an executable script:
#!/bin/sh
/opt/slimboat/slimboat.sh

cured the problem!