archive extraction bug on Mac

[tony--]

After installing jabba and [email protected] on Mac, eclipse would not start.
A dialog was displayed with a message similar to "JVM Shared library does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol".
In terminal, an error message indicated that ".jabba/jdk/[email protected]/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib: file too short".

This SO answer pointed me to the root cause.
For Java 11, Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib should be a symbolic link pointing to ../Home/lib/jli/libjli.dylib (for Java 8 it should link to ../Home/jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib), but instead it is a zero-length file. This was the case for the 3 JDKs I installed on Mac using jabba:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

I directly downloaded [email protected] from the url listed in index.json and extracted it using archive utility. Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib was a valid symbolic link.

Based on this, jabba's tar.gz extraction on Mac is not preserving symbol links.

[evacchi]

I think I can reproduce this on Linux when I install graal. The bin/native-image executable extracted by jabba is an empty file, but if I extract a tgz I downloaded manually it's a symlink

Any workaround, beside installing manually?

Thanks!

EDIT: version tested 0.9.2 upgraded to 0.11.0 same outcome

[shyiko]

My sincere apologies for the delayed response (for some reason "Notifications" were set to "Not Watching" and so I wasn't getting any messages for over 3 weeks).

Fixed in 0.11.1.