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xPack GNU realpath v9.4.0-1 released |
Version **9.4.0-1** is a new release; it follows the upstream release. |
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29 Aug 2023 |
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The xPack GNU realpath is a standalone cross-platform binary distribution of GNU realpath, part of GNU core utilities.
There are separate binaries for macOS (Intel 64-bit, Apple Silicon 64-bit) and GNU/Linux (Intel 64-bit, Arm 32/64-bit).
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The binary files are available from GitHub [Releases]({{ page.download_url }}).
- GNU/Linux Intel 64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- GNU/Linux Arm 32/64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- Intel macOS 64-bit: 10.13 or later
- Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit: 11.6 or later
The full details of installing the xPack GNU realpath on various platforms are presented in the separate [Install]({{ site.baseurl }}/dev-tools/realpath/install/) page.
The easiest way to install GNU realpath is with
[xpm
]({{ site.baseurl }}/xpm/)
by using the binary xPack, available as
@xpack-dev-tools/realpath
from the npmjs.com
registry.
With the xpm
tool available, installing
the latest version of the package and adding it as
a development dependency for a project is quite easy:
cd my-project
xpm init # Add a package.json if not already present
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/realpath@latest --verbose
ls -l xpacks/.bin
To install this specific version, use:
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/realpath@{{ page.version }}.{{ page.npm_subversion }} --verbose
It is also possible to install Meson Build globally, in the user home folder, but this requires xPack aware tools to automatically identify them and manage paths.
xpm install --global @xpack-dev-tools/realpath@latest --verbose
To remove the links created by xpm in the current project:
cd my-project
xpm uninstall @xpack-dev-tools/realpath
To completely remove the package from the central xPack store:
xpm uninstall --global @xpack-dev-tools/realpath
The xPack GNU realpath generally follows the official GNU core utilities releases.
The current version is based on:
- GNU core utilities version {{ page.coreutils_version }} from {{ page.coreutils_date }}.
Compared to the upstream version, there are no functional changes.
- none
- none
- none
On all platforms the packages are standalone, and expect only the standard runtime to be present on the host.
All dependencies that are build as shared libraries are copied locally
in the libexec
folder (or in the same folder as the executable for Windows).
On GNU/Linux the binaries are adjusted to use a relative path:
$ readelf -d library.so | grep runpath
0x000000000000001d (RPATH) Library rpath: [$ORIGIN]
In the GNU ld.so search strategy, the DT_RPATH
has
the highest priority, higher than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, so if this later one
is set in the environment, it should not interfere with the xPack binaries.
Please note that previous versions, up to mid-2020, used DT_RUNPATH
, which
has a priority lower than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, and does not tolerate setting
it in the environment.
Similarly, on macOS, the binaries are adjusted with install_name_tool
to use a
relative path.
The original documentation is available online.
The binaries for all supported platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.
For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the How to build page.
Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:
TBD
The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:
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xpack-realpath-9.4.0-1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
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xpack-realpath-9.4.0-1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
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xpack-realpath-9.4.0-1-linux-arm.tar.gz
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xpack-realpath-9.4.0-1-linux-arm64.tar.gz
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xpack-realpath-9.4.0-1-linux-x64.tar.gz
Support for 32-bit Intel Linux and Intel Windows was dropped in 2022. Support for 32-bit Arm Linux (armv7l) will be preserved for a while, due to the large user base of 32-bit Raspberry Pi systems.
Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022 and the minimum requirement was raised to GLIBC 2.27, available starting with Ubuntu 18, Debian 10 and RedHat 8.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver reached the end of the standard five-year maintenance window for Long-Term Support (LTS) release on 31 May 2023.
As a courtesy, the xPack GNU/Linux releases will continue to be based on Ubuntu 18.04 for another year.
From mid-2024 onwards, the GNU/Linux binaries will be built on Debian 10, (GLIBC 2.28), and are also expected to run on RedHat 8.
Users are urged to update their build and test infrastructure to ensure a smooth transition to the next xPack releases.
- GitHub xpack-dev-tools/realpath-xpack
- this release [![Github All Releases](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/xpack-dev-tools/realpath-xpack/v{{ page.version }}/total.svg)](https://github.com/xpack-dev-tools/realpath-xpack/releases/v{{ page.version }}/)
- all xPack releases
- individual file counters (grouped per release)
- npmjs.com @xpack-dev-tools/realpath
Credit to Shields IO for the badges and to Somsubhra/github-release-stats for the individual file counters.