AppRun do not link binary specified by -e argument

[efa]

I copy 2 binaries in AppDir/usr/bin, then call linuxdeploy to package deps and generate AppImage.
One of the 2 binaries is also passed as -e argument as main binary.
I saw the generated AppDir/AppRun link the other binary.

The AppDir is as so before call linuxdeploy:
AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit
AppDir/usr/bin/xnc

The linuxdeploy command is:
$ linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage -e source/xnedit --appdir AppDir -i resources/desktop/xnedit.png -d resources/desktop/xnedit.desktop --output appimage

Linuxdeploy generate this link:
AppDir/AppRun -> AppDir/usr/bin/xnc
instead of this one:
AppDir/AppRun -> AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit

Copy only xnc and skipping copy xnedit before call linuxdeploy, results the same.

The bash script is visible in this commit:
unixwork/xnedit@06ba0ca
and is runt with:
$ resources/AppImage/makeAppDir.sh XNEdit source/xnedit resources/desktop Linux

[TheAssassin]

Need a log.

[efa]

this is on Debian11 32 bit, but got same on Debian12 64bit:

efa@Debian11-32bit:~/c/xnedit$ tree AppDir
AppDir
└── usr
    └── bin
        ├── xnc
        └── xnedit

efa@Debian11-32bit:~/c/xnedit$ linuxdeploy-i386.AppImage -e source/xnedit --appdir AppDir -i resources/desktop/xnedit.png -d resources/desktop/xnedit.desktop --output appimage
linuxdeploy version 1-alpha (git commit ID 6a583d5), GitHub actions build 196 built on 2023-11-01 01:03:27 UTC

-- Creating basic AppDir structure -- 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/bin/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/lib/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/applications/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ 
Creating directory AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ 

-- Deploying dependencies for existing files in AppDir -- 
Deploying dependencies for ELF file AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit 
Deploying shared library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3
Deploying copyright files for file /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.so.4
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.so.4 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 
Skipping deployment of blacklisted library /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 
Deploying shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1
Deploying copyright files for file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 
Deploying dependencies for ELF file AppDir/usr/bin/xnc 

-- Deploying executables -- 
Deploying executable source/xnedit 
WARNING: Could not find copyright files for file source/xnedit using dpkg-query 
Deploying dependencies for ELF file source/xnedit 

-- Copying files into AppDir -- 
Copying file source/xnedit to AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit 
Copying file /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 to AppDir/usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXau.so.6 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXext.so.6 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXft.so.2 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.so.4 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXm.so.4 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 to AppDir/usr/lib/libXt.so.6 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 to AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 to AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 to AppDir/usr/lib/libbsd.so.0 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 to AppDir/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 to AppDir/usr/lib/libmd.so.0 
Copying file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 to AppDir/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libbrotli1/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libbrotli1/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libbsd0/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libbsd0/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libjpeg62-turbo/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libjpeg62-turbo/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libmd0/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libmd0/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libpcre3/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libpcre3/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libpng16-16/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libpng16-16/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxau6/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxau6/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxdmcp6/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxdmcp6/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxext6/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxext6/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxft2/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxft2/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxm4/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxm4/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxmu6/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxmu6/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxrender1/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxrender1/copyright 
Copying file /usr/share/doc/libxt6/copyright to AppDir/usr/share/doc/libxt6/copyright 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXau.so.6 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXext.so.6 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXft.so.2 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXm.so.4 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libXt.so.6 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libbsd.so.0 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libmd.so.0 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 
Calling strip on library AppDir/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/bin/xnc to $ORIGIN/../lib 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/bin/xnedit to $ORIGIN/../lib 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXau.so.6 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXext.so.6 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXft.so.2 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXm.so.4 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libXt.so.6 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libbsd.so.0 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libmd.so.0 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 to $ORIGIN 
Setting rpath in ELF file AppDir/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 to $ORIGIN 

-- Deploying icons -- 
Deploying icon resources/desktop/xnedit.png 
WARNING: Could not find copyright files for file resources/desktop/xnedit.png using dpkg-query 

-- Deploying desktop files -- 
Deploying desktop file resources/desktop/xnedit.desktop 

-- Copying files into AppDir -- 
Copying file resources/desktop/xnedit.desktop to AppDir/usr/share/applications/xnedit.desktop 
Copying file resources/desktop/xnedit.png to AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/xnedit.png 

-- Deploying files into AppDir root directory -- 
Deploying files to AppDir root using desktop file: AppDir/usr/share/applications/xnedit.desktop 
Deploying desktop file to AppDir root: AppDir/usr/share/applications/xnedit.desktop 
Creating symlink for file AppDir/usr/share/applications/xnedit.desktop in/as AppDir 
Deploying icon to AppDir root: AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/xnedit.png 
Creating symlink for file AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/xnedit.png in/as AppDir 
Deploying AppRun symlink for executable in AppDir root: AppDir/usr/bin/xnc 
Creating symlink for file AppDir/usr/bin/xnc in/as AppDir/AppRun 

-- Running output plugin: appimage -- 
[appimage/stdout] Found appimagetool: /tmp/.mount_linuxdw8riYu/plugins/linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage/usr/bin/appimagetool
[appimage/stderr] Running command: [appimage/stdout] 
/tmp/.mount_linuxdw8riYu/plugins/linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage/usr/bin/appimagetool "AppDir"
[appimage/stderr] 
[appimage/stderr] appimagetool, continuous build (commit 5735cc5), build <local dev build> built on 2023-03-08 22:51:46 UTC
[appimage/stdout] WARNING: appstreamcli command is missing, please install it if you want to use AppStream metadata
[appimage/stderr] Using architecture i386
[appimage/stderr] Deleting pre-existing .DirIcon
[appimage/stderr] Creating .DirIcon symlink based on information from desktop file
[appimage/stderr] WARNING: AppStream upstream metadata is missing, please consider creating it
[appimage/stderr]          in usr/share/metainfo/xnedit.appdata.xml
[appimage/stderr]          Please see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps
[appimage/stderr]          for more information or use the generator at http://output.jsbin.com/qoqukof.
[appimage/stderr] Generating squashfs...
[appimage/stdout] /home/efa/c/xnedit/AppDir/xnedit.desktop: warning: value "Application;Utility;TextEditor;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a deprecated value "Application"
[appimage/stdout] Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
[appimage/stdout] Creating 4.0 filesystem on XNEdit-i386.AppImage, block size 131072.
[appimage/stdout] 
[appimage/stdout] [=================================================================\] 82/82 100%[appimage/stderr] Embedding ELF...

[appimage/stdout] 
[appimage/stdout] Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072
[appimage/stdout] 	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments,
[appimage/stdout] 	compressed xattrs, compressed ids
[appimage/stdout] 	duplicates are removed
[appimage/stdout] Filesystem size 2950.83 Kbytes (2.88 Mbytes)
[appimage/stdout] 	40.09% of uncompressed filesystem size (7361.20 Kbytes)
[appimage/stdout] Inode table size 980 bytes (0.96 Kbytes)
[appimage/stdout] 	36.77% of uncompressed inode table size (2665 bytes)
[appimage/stdout] Directory table size 695 bytes (0.68 Kbytes)
[appimage/stdout] 	44.16% of uncompressed directory table size (1574 bytes)
[appimage/stdout] Number of duplicate files found 0
[appimage/stdout] Number of inodes 74
[appimage/stdout] Number of files 33
[appimage/stdout] Number of fragments 8
[appimage/stdout] Number of symbolic links  4
[appimage/stdout] Number of device nodes 0
[appimage/stdout] Number of fifo nodes 0
[appimage/stdout] Number of socket nodes 0
[appimage/stdout] Number of directories 37
[appimage/stdout] Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
[appimage/stdout] Number of uids 1
[appimage/stdout] 	root (0)
[appimage/stdout] Number of gids 1
[appimage/stdout] 	root (0)
[appimage/stderr] Marking the AppImage as executable...
[appimage/stderr] Embedding MD5 digest
[appimage/stdout] /home/efa/c/xnedit/AppDir should be packaged as XNEdit-i386.AppImage
[appimage/stderr] Success
[appimage/stderr] 
[appimage/stderr] Please consider submitting your AppImage to AppImageHub, the crowd-sourced
[appimage/stderr] central directory of available AppImages, by opening a pull request
[appimage/stderr] at https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io

efa@Debian11-32bit:~/c/xnedit$ tree AppDir
AppDir
├── AppRun -> usr/bin/xnc
├── usr
│   ├── bin
│   │   ├── xnc
│   │   └── xnedit
│   ├── lib
│   │   ├── libbrotlicommon.so.1
│   │   ├── libbrotlidec.so.1
│   │   ├── libbsd.so.0
│   │   ├── libjpeg.so.62
│   │   ├── libmd.so.0
│   │   ├── libpcre.so.3
│   │   ├── libpng16.so.16
│   │   ├── libXau.so.6
│   │   ├── libXdmcp.so.6
│   │   ├── libXext.so.6
│   │   ├── libXft.so.2
│   │   ├── libXm.so.4
│   │   ├── libXmu.so.6
│   │   ├── libXrender.so.1
│   │   └── libXt.so.6
│   └── share
│       ├── applications
│       │   └── xnedit.desktop
│       ├── doc
│       │   ├── libbrotli1
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libbsd0
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libjpeg62-turbo
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libmd0
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libpcre3
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libpng16-16
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxau6
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxdmcp6
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxext6
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxft2
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxm4
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxmu6
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   ├── libxrender1
│       │   │   └── copyright
│       │   └── libxt6
│       │       └── copyright
│       └── icons
│           └── hicolor
│               ├── 128x128
│               │   └── apps
│               ├── 16x16
│               │   └── apps
│               ├── 256x256
│               │   └── apps
│               ├── 32x32
│               │   └── apps
│               ├── 64x64
│               │   └── apps
│               ├── 96x96
│               │   └── apps
│               │       └── xnedit.png
│               └── scalable
│                   └── apps
├── xnedit.desktop -> usr/share/applications/xnedit.desktop
└── xnedit.png -> usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/xnedit.png

36 directories, 36 files

[TheAssassin]

Could you please post your xnedit.desktop?

[efa]

the file pointed by -d option is this:
https://github.com/efa/xnedit/blob/master/resources/desktop/xnedit.desktop
that has:
Exec=xnc -tabbed %F

is -e option overridden by desktop file Exec entry, a desired behaviour?