react-native-interactable: postinstall does not run as expected on ubuntu

The postinstall script basically creates the symlinks: android -> lib/android ios -> lib/ios

This is the result of running it in OSX:

This is the result of running it in Ubuntu:

Trying to navigate in Ubuntu to ios or android library will not work.
It’s important to mention that running ln -sf lib/{ios,android} . directly will work as expected:

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 16
Comments: 21 (3 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

attempt to heal #146 Force postinstall to use `bash` to address #146 which created invalid symlinks on Linux. — committed to markhu/react-native-interactable by markhu 6 years ago
don't assume bash-isms in default shell resolves #146 broken symlinks — committed to markhu/react-native-interactable by markhu 6 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Manually doing the following after installing dependencies worked for me cd $PROJECT_DIR/node_modules/react-native-interactable rm -rf \{ios\,android\} && rm -rf android && rm -rf ios ln -s lib/android . && ln -s lib/ios .

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gsaandy on Mar 7, 2018

This might be a stupid question, but why don’t you simply split the commands in 2? ln -s lib/android . && ln -s lib/ios .

helloagain-dev on Feb 13, 2018

It’s breaking my Bitrise automation too

andreluisjunqueira on Apr 4, 2018

@mkuczera Two months later now… any update? Setting up a Bitrise workflow (ubuntu) and found react-native-interactable was breaking the build.

I can’t see a good reason for setting up a project like this, and along with all the people above, just need a simple solution to get my app(s) deployed.

isaachinman on Jun 6, 2018

@helloagain-dev my automated build is broken too, did you do a build in another way?

BonnieMilian on Feb 27, 2018

I would really appreciate if this gets fixed quickly, as this breaks our automated build.

helloagain-dev on Feb 13, 2018

We are currently working on maintenance work for the whole package. Please just be patient. We are fixing a bunch of issues right now and thinking about the following steps.

mkuczera on Apr 4, 2018

I had the same issue. The problem is that the postinstall script uses a specific bash feature called expansion, but by default npm uses dash and not bash (on Ubuntu): https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/3963

A temporary fix is to set npm script-shell using: npm config set script-shell "/bin/bash" or something similar (I’m using zshell so I ran npm config set script-shell "/usr/bin/zsh").

erezrokah on Sep 2, 2017