Fix: reinstall creates symlink to wrong binary when binaryPath is set#40
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Description
When a tool was already installed, Luca would ignore the configured
binaryPathand always runBinaryFinderto decide which binary to symlink.BinaryFinderwalks the tool directory and returns the first file with Mach-O or ELF magic bytes which is not necessarily the intended entry point.This breaks any tool that ships with a shell-script launcher as its entry point alongside other real binaries in the archive (e.g. a bundled JRE, debug helpers, etc.). On every
luca install, the symlink in.luca/tools/would be recreated, pointing to whichever binary was found first, rather than the one specified in the Lucafile.Root cause:
reinstall(the code path taken whenisToolInstalledreturnstrue) unconditionally calledbinaryFinder.findBinary(), whileinstallArchive(the fresh-install path) already correctly honouredbinaryPathfirst and only fell back toBinaryFinderwhen nobinaryPathwas set.Fix: apply the same guard to
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