Problem with loading ez files at start of erlang (OTP 27 rc2)

[sailingareus]

Describe the bug
Erlang can not load ez files correctly when starting in OTP 27 RC2 via a boot file so there seams to possibly be something wrong with the code loading or a change of behaviour (not sure which) adding the internal path to the "ebin" directory seams make thing working i.e. "-pa lib/foobar.ez/foobar/ebin"

The Erlang VM fails to startup

erl -boot ~/eztestbed/boot/start_clean -boot_var MY_ROOT ~/eztestbed
"Internal error: Terminated in boot
({load_failed,[supervisor,lists,logger_config,

The Erlang VM start with adding the argument -pa

cwillia4@kupaklint:~/eztestbed$ erl -boot ~/eztestbed/boot/start_clean -boot_var MY_ROOT ~/eztestbed -pa ~/eztestbed/lib/kernel.ez/kernel/ebin -pa ~/eztestbed/lib/stdlib.ez/stdlib/ebin
Erlang/OTP 27 [RELEASE CANDIDATE 2] [erts-14.3] [source-bd62120713] [64-bit] [sm
p:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1]

Eshell V14.3 (press Ctrl+G to abort, type help(). for help)
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To Reproduce
Included is a minimal reproduction
eztestbed.tar.gz

Expected behavior
The Erlang VM starts up from ez files using a boot script without needining to add additional paths via pa or pz to start

Affected versions
The OTP 27 rc1 and rc2 it works fine in older version like OTP 25 and 26

Additional information
We know that creation of archive support was removed in OTP 26 from reltool but are aslo interested to know if it was a conscious decision to remove the loading of them. If so possibly what commit was it removed?

So we can get OTP 27 working and of course slowly remove the use of the archives.

Regards
Chris W.

[bjorng]

It will work if you add -code_path_choice relaxed to the command line:

erl -code_path_choice relaxed -boot ~/eztestbed/boot/start_clean -boot_var MY_ROOT ~/eztestbed

The default for -code_path_choice has changed to strict in Erlang/OTP 27. This was done in #7243. This was mentioned in a release note (OTP-18894 for the Erts application). I will update the release note for the next release candidate to make it clearer that you'll need to use this option if you are using archives.

[sailingareus]

Tack,
That solves the problem

Regards
Chris Williams