seems to work fine. 

Running OSX things are a little different anyway in case you installed BaseX from the downloadable disk image to /Applications/ you have to use the startup scripts that come with BaseX.app anyway.

So I guess most OSX won't be affected by this change. 

I had a quick look at the actual issue and came up with [problem 1, solution 2]. 

We could maybe change the OSX scripts to call readlink (without -e) (in case calling it with -e failed) to have the actual startscripts reside inside BaseX.app

I'll think about this, for now the solutiono looks fine.

Kind regards

Michael

[1] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/2020

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055671/how-can-i-get-the-behavior-of-gnus-readlink-f-on-a-mac