can't use erlang as a stage package

[Leo Arias]

I'm trying to snap an erlang app. This would be really really simple if I could use the erlang package in the snap, but it has a hardcoded path outside of the snap.

To reproduce:

Run snapcraft on the attached file.
$ cat prime/usr/lib/erlang/erts-7.3/bin/erl | grep ROOTDIR
ROOTDIR=/usr/lib/erlang
BINDIR=$ROOTDIR/erts-7.3/bin
export ROOTDIR

When I try to run the app, it will fail saying:
/snap/tty2048/x3/usr/bin/erl: 29: exec: /usr/lib/erlang/erts-7.3/bin/erlexec: not found

As far as I understand, this is a bug in the erlang package, because it shouldn't hardcode the location of the root dir.

[Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)]

Why is this logged against snapcraft, then?

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

It affects people trying to do an earlang snap with snapcraft. But you are right, this probably should be a won't fix in snapcraft.