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The lean package is currently non-functional. Not "degraded on some inputs" — it cannot compile #eval 1+1:

$ lean /tmp/t.lean
error: object file '/usr/lib/lean/Init.olean' of module Init does not exist

Cause

Lean's module rootsInit.olean, Std.olean, Lean.olean, Lake.olean — sit directly in lib/lean/, not inside a subdirectory. Two independent places drop them:

  • build.sh copies lib/lean/*.a and lib/lean/*.so*, then loops over lib/lean/*/directories only. The root-level .olean files never reach $OUTPUT_DIR.
  • the output glob usr/lib/lean/**/*.olean requires at least one directory level, so it wouldn't capture them even if they were there.

Both are fixed here. Either alone is a no-op — I wrote the glob fix first, and it would have shipped as a change that did nothing until I read build.sh.

Why it hid

Everything else looked right. 586 oleans land under Init/ and Std/, the binaries run, lean --version answers, and mip check passes. The only absent class is the one file per module that makes all the rest reachable.

How it surfaced

Building an aeneas verification bench (a session loadout for the aeneas stack). The first two steps of the documented pipeline work end to end on a trivial crate:

charon cargo --preset=aeneas --dest-file vlab.llbc   → vlab.llbc (12,614 bytes)
aeneas -backend lean vlab.llbc                       → Generated: ./Vlab.lean

and the model is faithful — fn add(a: u32, b: u32) -> u32 comes out as Result Std.U32, modelling the overflow rather than pretending the addition is total. Then nothing could check it.

Worth noting: stacks/aeneas/stack.ncl says Lean is there "so the loop actually closes (emit AND check)". That claim isn't true today; this PR is what makes it true.

Verification status — please read

Not locally build-verified. mip package build refuses on macOS (sandbox execution is only supported on Linux), so this leans on CI to do the real build. mip check --packages lean is green, but its build-dependent checks Skip on an unbuilt package, so that's weak evidence by itself.

The two checks to make against a built tree:

ls usr/lib/lean/Init.olean     # should now exist
lean /tmp/t.lean               # `#eval 1+1` should no longer error

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Packaged Lean installations now include root-level compiled modules, including core modules such as Init, Std, Lean, and Lake.
    • Improved availability of these modules when using the packaged Lean library.

…them

The `lean` package is currently non-functional. Not "degraded on some inputs":
it cannot compile `#eval 1+1`.

    $ lean /tmp/t.lean
    error: object file '/usr/lib/lean/Init.olean' of module Init does not exist

Lean's module ROOTS (`Init.olean`, `Std.olean`, `Lean.olean`, `Lake.olean`) sit
directly in `lib/lean/`, not inside a subdirectory. Two independent places drop
them:

  * build.sh copies `lib/lean/*.a` and `lib/lean/*.so*`, then loops over
    `lib/lean/*/` — DIRECTORIES ONLY. The root-level `.olean` files are never
    copied into $OUTPUT_DIR at all.
  * the output glob `usr/lib/lean/**/*.olean` requires at least one directory
    level, so it would not capture them even if they were there.

Both are fixed; either alone is a no-op. I wrote the glob fix first and it
would have shipped as a change that did nothing.

Why it hid: everything else looked right. 586 oleans land under Init/ and Std/,
the binaries run, `lean --version` answers, and `mip check` passes. The only
absent class is the one file per module that makes all the rest reachable.

Found while building an aeneas verification bench: charon and aeneas both work
end to end (a Rust crate -> `.llbc` -> a Lean model that correctly types `u32`
addition as `Result Std.U32`), and then nothing could CHECK the model. The
`aeneas` stack's comment says the loop "actually closes (emit AND check)" — it
does not, today.

NOT locally build-verified: `mip package build` refuses on macOS ("sandbox
execution is only supported on Linux"), so this leans on CI to build it. The
check to make against a built tree is `ls usr/lib/lean/Init.olean` and a
`lean /tmp/t.lean` that no longer errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Lean package now captures and copies root-level .olean files into /usr/lib/lean. This makes modules such as Init, Std, Lean, and Lake available to packaged Lean imports.

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Lean root module packaging

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Package root-level Lean modules
packages/lean/build.ncl, packages/lean/build.sh
The package declares a module_roots output for root-level .olean files. The build script copies these files into /usr/lib/lean.

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The package build can still publish an incomplete Lean library if a required module root is missing, because copy failures are suppressed. Merge should wait for strict validation of the required roots or explicit owner acceptance of this bounded correctness risk.

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In `@packages/lean/build.sh`:
- Line 49: Update the root module copy step in the build script to first
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CodeRabbit's point, and it is the right one: the copy `|| true`s its errors and
a glob still matches whatever IS present, so one absent root would publish an
incomplete Lean library again — with a green build, exactly as this package has
been doing for however long it has been broken.

So assert the four roots after copying. A layout change upstream now fails the
build with a message naming the missing module, instead of shipping a lean that
compiles nothing and waiting for someone to try to use it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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