Public bug reported:
The nailgun client's executable has been renamed from its standard name,
`ng`, to `ng-nailgun` - presumably to avoid a conflict with the ng-
common package.
However, this causes the nailgun client to fail to work, because its
behaviour changes according to the name under which it's invoked. From
the nailgun source code:
/* look at the command used to launch this program. if it was "ng", then the
actual
command to issue to the server must be specified as another argument. if
it
wasn't ng, assume that the desired command name was symlinked to ng in the
user's
filesystem, and use the symlink name (without path info) as the command
for the server. */
cmd = shortClientName(argv[0]);
if (isNailgunClientName(cmd)) {
cmd = NULL;
}
The isNailgunClientName function compares against the
NAILGUN_CLIENT_NAME constant in the source code, and that constant was
not changed in the Ubuntu patches for the nailgun package. As a result,
nailgun assumes that `ng-nailgun` is actually the name of the Java class
to execute and it ignores the actual specified Java class. This renders
it impossible to use the nailgun client executable for any purpose.
** Affects: nailgun (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nailgun client fails to launch due to renamed executable
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