THIS LIBRARY IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ERLANG/OTP 25

[roychowdhuryrohit-dev]

Steps to reproduce

Producing a release using Distillery shows error.

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Description of issue

• What are the expected results?
• It should successfully produce release.
• What version of Distillery?
• 6700edb
• What OS, Erlang/Elixir versions are you seeing this issue on?
• All, Erlang/OTP 25

[brooksmtownsend]

Getting this as well, which makes our MacOS builds that install via brew (and brew doesn't let you downgrade versions, ugh) unusable

Just wanted to echo that I'm running into this too for wasmCloud/wasmcloud-otp#409, and would be happy to help test a fix

cc @bitwalker / @mobileoverlord since this issue has been open for a bit

[narrowtux]

@brooksmtownsend this is off-topic, but I can recommend using asdf for managing developer dependencies where you can pin on the exact version you need, per project even.

[brooksmtownsend]

@narrowtux Yeah asdf is pretty fantastic and what I ended up falling back to, the reason I preferred brew was simply for the speed of installation in CI builds

[ziyouchutuwenwu]

similar for me

MIX_ENV=prod mix distillery.release

output

MIX_ENV=prod mix distillery.release                       
Generated demo app
==> Assembling release..
==> Building release demo:0.1.0 using environment prod
==> Including ERTS 13.0.3 from /usr/lib/erlang/erts-13.0.3
==> Release failed: no match of right hand side value: {:error, :eacces}
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:863: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.create_RELEASES/2
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:290: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.write_release_scripts/1
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:50: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.assemble/1
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/tasks/release.ex:130: Mix.Tasks.Distillery.Release.do_release/2
    (mix 1.13.2) lib/mix/task.ex:397: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/3
    (mix 1.13.2) lib/mix/cli.ex:84: Mix.CLI.run_task/2
    (elixir 1.13.2) src/elixir_compiler.erl:73: :elixir_compiler.dispatch/4
    (elixir 1.13.2) src/elixir_compiler.erl:58: :elixir_compiler.compile/3

[randysecrist]

Also seeing this;

==> Including ERTS 13.0.4 from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/erlang/25.0.4/lib/erlang/erts-13.0.4
==> Release failed: no match of right hand side value: {:error, :eacces}
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:863: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.create_RELEASES/2
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:290: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.write_release_scripts/1
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex:50: Distillery.Releases.Assembler.assemble/1
    (distillery 2.1.1) lib/distillery/tasks/release.ex:130: Mix.Tasks.Distillery.Release.do_release/2
    (mix 1.13.4) lib/mix/task.ex:397: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/3
    (mix 1.13.4) lib/mix/cli.ex:84: Mix.CLI.run_task/2
    (elixir 1.13.4) src/elixir_compiler.erl:73: :elixir_compiler.dispatch/4
    (elixir 1.13.4) src/elixir_compiler.erl:58: :elixir_compiler.compile/3

[andyleclair]

+1 here

[cplotter]

+1

[tensor-programming]

same, it seems to be due to the changes to the release handler in erlang otp 25.

[carflynn2009]

Same issue here

erlang - 25.0.4
elixir - 1.14.0-otp-25
OS - MacOS

Downgrading is not an option for me as we need the latest version of Elixir

==> Assembling release..
==> Building release management_portal_umbrella:0.1.0 using environment prod
==> Including ERTS 13.0.4 from /Users/carlflynn/.asdf/installs/erlang/25.0.4/erts-13.0.4
==> Packaging release..
==> Failed to archive release: _build/prod/rel/management_portal_umbrella/releases/RELEASES: no such file or directory

[lkananowicz]

+1

[austinsalonen]

--- a/lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex
+++ b/lib/distillery/releases/assembler.ex
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ defmodule Distillery.Releases.Assembler do
     # no work around for this
     old_cwd = File.cwd!()
     File.cd!(output_dir)
-    :ok = :release_handler.create_RELEASES('./', 'releases', '#{relfile}', [])
+    :ok = :release_handler.create_RELEASES(File.cwd!(), Path.join([File.cwd!(), 'releases']), '#{relfile}', [])
     File.cd!(old_cwd)
     :ok
   end

I have a local fork that works with just this change within lib/ so if you use a git dependency in your mix file, you can use your own fork with this change.

Getting the tests to run has been a challenge and required quite a few changes. I had to comment out the cookie tests because I couldn't hit quvic.com from behind a firewall. Also, the "directory with space in name" wouldn't work for me so I just removed it.

If I can find the time to run tests across several versions of Elixir & OTP, I'll submit a MR. If someone else submits this fix based on this post, thanks!

Tested with Elixir 1.12.3 & 1.13.4 + Erlang 25.0.4.