Bug 157162

Created attachment 189444 [details]
A sample Python scripts that uses bootstrap() method

Description:
Having a blank character in LibreOffice installation directory leads to the display of an error message when bootstrapping from Python script. This is specially important on Windows where this is the default situation. The default Windows installation is in "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice", which contains a space character.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download start.py from the attachment
1. Go to some folder, for example c:\windows\tmp
2. Run this command:
 "c:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python.exe" start.py
If start.py is somewhere else, give the correct path.

Actual Results:
Dialog box, showing something like this:
c:\Windows\Temp\Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe does not exist.

This string (wrong path) consists of:

1) Current working directory
2) Path to Python binary, cut after space character
3) soffice.exe

The error dialog box says the soffice.exe (within the wrong path) does not exist. This shows that soffice.exe is called with wrong parameters, so that it wrongly assumes that this the above string is a file to open, and it gives error that it does not exist.
It seems that the parameter handling routines do not care well enough about the possible space characters in the path.

Expected Results:
Invoking soffice.exe should happen with the correct parameters, and the error dialog box should not appear.

Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


Additional Info:
Version: 7.6.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 69edd8b8ebc41d00b4de3915dc82f8f0fc3b6265
CPU threads: 20; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

A workaround is using short names, where applicable. For example, on Windows one can invoke:

 "c:\Progra~1\LibreOffice\program\python.exe" start.py

In this case, the error dialog does not come up.