Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#8660 assigned defect

Use equivalent of realpath(sys.executable) in launcher

Reported by: Zach Pearson Owned by: Greg Couch
Priority: moderate Milestone:
Component: Core Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

Many areas of ChimeraX code depend on accurately knowing where the executable lives, but on some platforms what actually gets called to start ChimeraX can be a symbolic link to the executable, which throws that code off. Rather than putting os.path.realpath(...) everywhere, an alternative is to set argv[0] to the executable's real path in the launcher.

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Eric Pettersen, 3 years ago

Component: Unassigned → Core

comment:2 by Greg Couch, 2 years ago

Milestone: 1.7 → 1.8

comment:3 by Greg Couch, 19 months ago

This seems like a good idea, but it can confuse users when the path used to run ChimeraX is different from its actual path.

comment:4 by Greg Couch, 17 months ago

Milestone: 1.8

comment:5 by Zach Pearson, 9 months ago

We're using realpath in Python instead now (see src/bundles/core/src/{python_utils.py,utils.py,\_\_main\_\_.py}) so this can probably be closed.

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