libeatmydata binary does not work

[srhb]

Steps to reproduce, with a fresh nixpkgs repo:

❯ nix-env -f nixpkgs -iA pkgs.libeatmydata                                                                           ~
replacing old ‘libeatmydata-82’
installing ‘libeatmydata-82’
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/3yad1r4aim4bnzq4778djpsfa4z4yidv-user-environment’
created 1621 symlinks in user environment
❯ eatmydata anycommand                                                                                                  ~
eatmydata error: unable to find 'eatmydata' in PATH

I'm not sure if the specific error is indicating some mis-setup of my PATH, but I don't know how to test that either.

[srhb]

Apparently not reproducible by the kind folks on IRC. Must be my shell setup.

[lihop]

On IRC, I said that I couldn't reproduce this, but I wasn't paying enough attention.
I get this error too.

[pSub]

I can reproduce this error as well. I am really sure whats going on. Adding eatmydata's bin directory to PATH seems to work, but I am not sure why it is attempting to call itself in the first place.

@srhb Can you try to add it to PATH like

PATH=/nix/store/*-libeatmydata-*/bin:$PATH eatmydata echo

and test if this does the correct thing?

[srhb]

Yes, this:

❯ PATH=/nix/store/x26ch4jk4zwwxnl7hrb13fxsrf7mw222-libeatmydata-82/bin:$PATH eatmydata uname
Linux

works correctly.

[pSub]

I have pushed a fix to master. It seems hacky to me, so it would make sense to investigate whether that fix is really adequate.

[srhb]

Your fix Works For Me^(tm), so perhaps we should consider this closed for now?

[pSub]

Yes, I think this can be closed. If there are problems with this fix in the future we just open a new ticket.