ERL-142: (19.0-rc1) escript appears to be broken for zipped-beam single executable format

[OTP-Maintainer]

Original reporter: okeuday
Affected version: OTP-19.0
Fixed in version: OTP-19.0
Component: Not Specified
Migrated from: https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-142

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I don't understand the source of the problem, but it is easy to reproduce:
{noformat}
git clone https://github.com/rebar/rebar.git
cd rebar
./bootstrap
./rebar help
{noformat}

The output produced is:

{noformat}
{"init terminating in do_boot",{load_failed,[lists,proc_lib,gen_event,kernel,supervisor,gen_server,filename,file_server,file,heart,ets,error_logger,erl_lint,erl_eval,code,application_controller,application_master,application,error_handler,file_io_server,gen,erl_parse,code_server]}}

Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...done
init terminating in do_boot ()
{noformat}

rebar3 also has a problem, but the bootstrap script just hangs, refusing to complete, with:
{noformat}
git clone https://github.com/erlang/rebar3.git
cd rebar3
./bootstrap
{noformat}

If this is a problem with my build of 19.0-rc1, please tell me, however, I have run the tests and everything appears to be fine.  Using the zip github creates for the tag at https://github.com/erlang/otp/archive/OTP-19.0-rc1.zip with typical installation options (on x86_64 Linux, using GNU Autoconf 2.68):
{noformat}
export ERL_TOP=`pwd`
./otp_build autoconf
./configure --enable-threads --enable-smp-support --enable-kernel-poll --disable-hipe --prefix=/home/user/installed --enable-dirty-schedulers
make && make install
{noformat}

[OTP-Maintainer]

okeuday said:

I retried after using GNU autoconf 2.59 with a new installation, but received the same results with rebar2 and rebar3.

[OTP-Maintainer]

bjorn said:

Here is a fix:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1055

We will run it a few days in our daily builds and then merge it if no problems are found.