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Fix setup of datadir on installations with Conda (issue #4230) #4240

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tessdata_prefix = TESSDATA_PREFIX;
datadir = tessdata_prefix;
datadir += "/tessdata/";
// in the binary, so it might be shorter. Recalculate its length.
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Since std::string is initialized from "const char*", I wonder how it can be shorter?

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The length is calculated at compile time and not updated at runtime if the const char * was patched.

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If you have a locally built tesseract installed in /usr/local/bin (= with prefix /usr/local), you can patch the binary for example using perl -pi -e 's,/usr/l,/tmp/\0,' /usr/local/bin/tesseract. Then try tesseract --list-langs to get the endless recursion.

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Ok, thanks.

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As I understand, if the patched path is longer than the original one, the data in std::string is truncated. If so, it probably makes sense to call strlen() on the string literal rather than on c_str().

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It's not possible to replace the original TESSDATA_PREFIX by a longer one because that would destroy other data. Therefore Conda uses a very long placeholder for TESSDATA_PREFIX.

@stweil stweil requested review from danpla and removed request for danpla May 15, 2024 14:53
@stweil stweil merged commit bcfdd5e into tesseract-ocr:main May 15, 2024
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@stweil stweil deleted the issue4230 branch May 15, 2024 14:56
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