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NetBSD: All functionality fails; "-S" is not a portable option to env

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
64/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
build-system, cli

Research direction

Start with the fix-bundle script in package.json and the generated bin/bundle.js entry point, then reproduce npx spago build or --help on NetBSD. Check how the bundled executable invokes env and verify that the resulting package works without relying on NetBSD-unsupported -S behavior; done means Spago commands run successfully on NetBSD.

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Description

Spago 1.0.4 installed via npm fails to do anything on NetBSD:

-bash-5.3$ npx spago build
env: unknown option -- S

Usage: env [-0i] [-C dir] [-u name] [--] \
           [name=value ...] [--] \
           [utility [arg ...] ]
-bash-5.3$ npx spago --help
env: unknown option -- S

Usage: env [-0i] [-C dir] [-u name] [--] \
           [name=value ...] [--] \
           [utility [arg ...] ]
-bash-5.3$ npx spago
env: unknown option -- S

Usage: env [-0i] [-C dir] [-u name] [--] \
           [name=value ...] [--] \
           [utility [arg ...] ]

I tried the version of spago from pkg_src first, but that's the old dhall-spago instead of the current yaml-spago.

I could not find an equivalent to -S in the env(1) man page on NetBSD.

Changing the fix-bundle script in spago's package.json to a no-op, and undoing the change to spago's bin/bundle.js caused the build to succeed:

[641 of 642] Compiling Test.Main
[642 of 642] Compiling Main
           Src   Lib   All
Warnings     0     0     0
Errors       0     0     0

✓ Build succeeded.

-bash-5.3$ grep fix-bundle node_modules/spago/package.json
    "fix-bundle": ":",
    "bundle": "spago bundle -p spago-bin && npm run fix-bundle",
    "prepublishOnly": "spago build && ./bin/index.dev.js bundle -p spago-bin && npm run fix-bundle && ./bin/index.dev.js bundle -p docs-search-client-halogen",
-bash-5.3$ head -n 1 node_modules/spago/bin/bundle.js
#!/usr/bin/env node
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