Changeset 58323 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux

Timestamp:

Oct 20, 2015 8:37:30 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Installer/linux: for non-package installations, VBox.sh can find the installation path from the link target.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/VBox.sh

@@ -17 +17 @@
 
 PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
-CONFIG="/etc/vbox/vbox.cfg"
 
-test -r "${CONFIG}" &&
-    . "${CONFIG}"
-test -z "${INSTALL_DIR}" &&
-    if test -f /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox &&
-        test -x /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox; then
-        INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/virtualbox
-    else
-        echo "Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
-        exit 1
-    fi
+# The below is GNU-specific.  See slightly further down for a version which
+# works on Solaris and OS X.
+TARGET=`readlink -e -- "${0}"` || exit 1
+MY_DIR="${TARGET%/[!/]*}"
+
+# (
+#     path="${0}"
+#     while test -n "${path}"; do
+#         # Make sure we have at least one slash and no leading dash.
+#         expr "${path}" : / > /dev/null || path="./${path}"
+#         # Filter out bad characters in the path name.
+#         expr "${path}" : ".*[*?<>\\]" > /dev/null && exit 1
+#         # Catch embedded new-lines and non-existing (or path-relative) files.
+#         # $0 should always be absolute when scripts are invoked through "#!".
+#         test "`ls -l -d "${path}" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`" -eq 1 || exit 1
+#         # Change to the folder containing the file to resolve relative links.
+#         folder=`expr "${path}" : "\(.*/\)[^/][^/]*/*$"` || exit 1
+#         path=`expr "x\`ls -l -d "${path}"\`" : "[^>]* -> \(.*\)"`
+#         cd "${folder}"
+#         # If the last path was not a link then we are in the target folder.
+#         test -n "${path}" || pwd
+#     done
+# )
+
+if test -f /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox &&
+    test -x /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox; then
+    INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/virtualbox
+elif test -f "${MY_DIR}/VirtualBox" && test -x "${MY_DIR}/VirtualBox"; then
+    INSTALL_DIR="${MY_DIR}"
+else
+    echo "Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 # Note: This script must not fail if the module was not successfully installed