Install tarball links both point to non-bundled archive

[hholst80]

Bug Report

I am running a custom LFS based distro and I downloaded crystal lang from the download page as a bundle:

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

I unpacked the tar ball under /usr/local

# crystal -v
Crystal 1.14.0 [dacd97bcc] (2024-10-09)

LLVM: 18.1.6
Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

I see that /usr/local/lib/crystal contains a single file libgc.a

My program:

# cat src/cr.cr 
# TODO: Write documentation for `Cr`
module Cr
  VERSION = "0.1.0"

  # TODO: Put your code here
  puts "Hello World!"
end

I tried to run it:

# crystal run src/cr.cr
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent (this usually means you need to install the development package for libevent): No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Error: execution of command failed with exit status 1: cc "${@}" -o /root/.cache/crystal/crystal-run-cr.tmp  -rdynamic -L/usr/local/bin/../lib/crystal -lgc -lpthread -levent -lrt -lpthread -ldl

This is due to libevent.a missing in /usr/local/lib/crystal. Is it expected to be on the host? In what sense is the download a bundle?

I assumed that a download would contain its own dependencies to be able to generate ready-to-run binaries. ld is fairly fundamental but so far I have installed +200 packages without needing libevent in any form or shape so its not indispensable.

[Blacksmoke16]

Related: https://crystal-lang.org/2024/11/05/lifetime-event-loop/

Could try installing the latest nightly release where you shouldn't need libevent at all. At least until the stable version is released in a few weeks.

EDIT: It seems the archive you linked isn't the bundled one. I just downloaded https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64-bundled.tar.gz and it has libevent.a libevent_pthreads.a libgc.a libpcre2-8.a?

[hholst80]

@Blacksmoke16 It seems the download link I followed both referred to the same file?

• https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

They are the same, so I guess I did not download the bundled version? Who can we ping to update the download links?

[Blacksmoke16]

No, they for sure point to diff archives:

• The non-bundled version https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz downloads crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• The bundled version https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.14.0/crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64-bundled.tar.gz downloads crystal-1.14.0-1-linux-x86_64-bundled.tar.gz

They're very similar but the latter has that -bundled suffix.

[hholst80]

Not on my firefox.... strange.

https://crystal-lang.org/install/#linux

This is the link you open? I did a reload... for sure they point to the same file (the non-bundle).

[Blacksmoke16]

Ooo no, I was grabbing the links directly off the GH release. I'll re-open this and transfer it to the correct repo. Thanks!