Fix --completion-* args to work from AppImage (fixes #285)

.gitignore

@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ manual/print.xsl
 qpdf/build/
 zlib-flate/build/
 fuzz/qpdf_fuzzer_seed_corpus/
+distribution/

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2019-06-22  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
+	* It now works to run --completion-bash and --completion-zsh when
+	qpdf is started from an AppImage.
+
 	* Provided a more useful error message when Windows can't get
 	security context. Thanks to user zdenop for supplying some code.
 	Fixes #286.

README-maintainer

@@ -264,15 +264,11 @@ zip -r qpdf-external-libs-src.zip external-libs
 When releasing on sourceforge, `external-libs` distributions go in
 `external-libs/yyyymmdd`, and qpdf distributions go in `qpdf/vvv`.
 
-For local iteration on the AppImage generation, follow the release
-procedures for building the AppImage, but instead of passing git clone
-options to the docker command, copy qpdf to /tmp/build. You can also
-pass -e SKIP_TESTS=1 to docker to skip the test suite, useful for
-rapid iteration. Set up /tmp/build as in the release process.
-
-cp -a $PWD /tmp/build
-docker run --privileged -ti --rm -e SKIP_TESTS=1 -v /tmp/build:/tmp/build qpdfbuild
-
+For local iteration on the AppImage generation, it works to just
+./azure-pipelines/build-appimage and get the resulting AppImage from
+the distribution directory. You can also pass -e SKIP_TESTS=1
+build-appimage, which passes it along to to docker, to skip the test
+suite, which useful for rapid iteration.
 
 GENERAL BUILD STUFF
 

azure-pipelines/build-appimage

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+#
+# Any extra args are passed to the docker run command before the
+# invocation of qpdfbuild. This is useful for iterating locally as
+# described in README-maintainer.
+#
 set -ex
 cd appimage
 docker build -t qpdfbuild .
@@ -6,7 +11,9 @@ rm -rf build
 mkdir build
 cd ..
 git clone .git appimage/build/qpdf
-docker run --privileged --rm -v $PWD/appimage/build:/tmp/build qpdfbuild
+docker run --privileged --rm \
+       -v $PWD/appimage/build:/tmp/build ${1+"$@"} qpdfbuild
+rm -rf distribution
 mkdir distribution
 cp -p appimage/build/qpdf/appimage/build/qpdf*AppImage* distribution
 for i in distribution/*; do

manual/qpdf-manual.xml

@@ -4337,6 +4337,13 @@ print "\n";
           with exit code 3 instead of 2.
          </para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+         <para>
+          The <option>--completion-bash</option> and
+          <option>--completion-zsh</option> options now work properly
+          when qpdf is invoked as an AppImage.
+         </para>
+        </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>

qpdf/qpdf.cc

@@ -1471,10 +1471,23 @@ ArgParser::argHelp()
 void
 ArgParser::argCompletionBash()
 {
+    std::string progname = argv[0];
+    // Detect if we're in an AppImage and adjust
+    std::string appdir;
+    std::string appimage;
+    if (QUtil::get_env("APPDIR", &appdir) &&
+        QUtil::get_env("APPIMAGE", &appimage))
+    {
+        if ((appdir.length() < strlen(argv[0])) &&
+            (strncmp(appdir.c_str(), argv[0], appdir.length()) == 0))
+        {
+            progname = appimage;
+        }
+    }
     std::cout << "complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace"
-              << " -C " << argv[0] << " " << whoami << std::endl;
+              << " -C " << progname << " " << whoami << std::endl;
     // Put output before error so calling from zsh works properly
-    std::string path = argv[0];
+    std::string path = progname;
     size_t slash = path.find('/');
     if ((slash != 0) && (slash != std::string::npos))
     {