Bug#544356: Fails to initialize on kfreebsd (was: neverball: fails to start on kFreeBSD)

[Jordà Polo]

reassign 544356 libphysfs 2.0.0-3
retitle 544356 Fails to initialize on kfreebsd
thanks

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:01:38PM +0200, Jordà Polo wrote:
> Jānis Rūcis (parasti), Neverball developer, told me at on IRC:
> 
>  «running a small test program on a kFreeBSD live CD gives "no such
>  file or directory" as the error when physfs init fails (i.e., running
>  from PATH not with relative/absolute name); readlink /proc/self/exe
>  prints out "unknown"»
> 
> I'm still not able to reproduce it, but wanted to keep you updated.

I have finally been able to reproduce the problem using an up-to-date
kfreebsd, and can confirm it is a bug in libphysfs and not in neverball.
PHYSFS_init() fails to guess the path of the binary on kfreebsd.

To reproduce it, compile the attached code (gcc physfs-init.c -lphysfs)
and invoke it as follows:

 $ ./a.out
 ok
 $ PATH=$(pwd):$PATH a.out
 not ok: No such file or directory

I'm now reassigning this bug to libphysfs.
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