Prebuilt Linux binaries are unusable on any modern system about watchman

[devdave]

For myself, I ended up building from source, but the mentioned .deb files would have been nice. https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#ubuntu-prebuilt-debs

[Flameeyes]

Nah, this is all broken, there's no way to get this to run on any modern system. I believe the prebuilt binaries shouldn't be pushed at all, and the installation instructions updated accordingly.

[Flameeyes]

Actually this is worse, because the DT_NEEDED entries for the binaries refer directly to /usr/local/lib so by default the LD_LIBRARY_PATH option is not even respected.

[Flameeyes]

Okay after downloading the zip file with the prebuilt binaries it's possible to fix this with patchelf:

for file in bin/*; do patchelf --add-rpath '$ORIGIN/../lib' $file; readelf -d $file | grep NEEDED | grep /usr/local | sed -e 's:.*\[\(.*\)\]:\1:' | while read library; do patchelf --replace-needed $library $(basename $library) $file; done; done

[quux-aivar]

Nah, this is all broken, there's no way to get this to run on any modern system. I believe the prebuilt binaries shouldn't be pushed at all, and the installation instructions updated accordingly.

I agree!

Overall, it appears that the project has been abandoned.

https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#fedora-prebuilt-rpms

Unfortunately, Fedora 39 does not yet have an RPM package available.

When you install the Linux binaries that are given via release, the app will fail.