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• Steps to reproduce provided
• Stacktrace (if present) provided
• Example that reproduces the problem (link to git repository is ideal)
• Full description of the issue provided (see below)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Build an assembly
2. Extract app somewhere, e.g. ~/.local/apps/myapp/bin/myapp
3. Link somewhere in a relative way, e.g. (cd ~/.local/bin && ln -s ../apps/myapp/bin/app)

Expected Behaviour

When executed, should work

Actual Behaviour

When executed, lib path is determined in a wrong way, because APP_HOME is not correctly resolved:

$ bash -x myapp
+ app_path=myapp
+ APP_HOME=
+ '[' -h myapp ']'
++ cd ./..
++ pwd -P
+ APP_HOME=/Users

... which is wrong.

Workaround

Link in an absolute path: (cd ~/.local/bin && ln -s ~/.local/apps/myapp/bin/app)

Then:

$ bash -x ./myapp
+ app_path=./myapp
+ APP_HOME=./
+ '[' -h ./myapp ']'
++ ls -ld ./myapp
+ ls='lrwxr-xr-x  1 theUser  1000  57 17 Oct 10:47 ./myapp -> /Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/myapp'
+ link=/Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/myapp
+ case $link in
+ app_path=/Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/myapp
+ APP_HOME=/Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/
+ '[' -h /Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/myapp ']'
++ cd /Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/..
++ pwd -P
+ APP_HOME=/Users/theUser/.local/apps/myapp-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT

Environment Information

• Operating System: MacOS
• JReleaser Version: latest/any
• JDK Version: any, not relevant for this issue (but I used IBM Semeru 17 and 25)

Please paste stacktraces from [out|build|target]/jreleaser/trace.log.

not relevant

But here is the relevant snippet: