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bunx: fix the .bin link of a native dependency in more cases - #46486
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- A folder above the project with the name of an earlier optional dependency hid the platform package. Every optional dependency whose name is in the path is now tried. - The link into an optional dependency with an os and a cpu won over the package's own executable file for every package. It now wins only for a package that is in `nativeDependencies` or in the built-in list, which is when the installer makes that link. - When the package's own file cannot run, the link into any optional dependency is used again.
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Updated 4:05 AM PT - Oct 22nd, 2026
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Walkthroughbunx now checks project dependencies for native platform packages during binary resolution. If the requested package’s bin is missing, it can return an optional dependency’s bin. Tests cover platform metadata, package aliases, hoisted installs, and stub-bin permissions. ChangesOptional dependency binary resolution
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The title clearly describes the main change: fixing bunx .bin link resolution for native dependencies across additional cases. |
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Review comments at @src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:
- Around line 603-621: Update the optional-dependency candidate construction in
is_in_optional_dependency to require the path segment
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A folder above the project can have the name of an optional dependency and a package.json. When the package's own bin file could not run, `bunx <package>` then ran the `.bin` entry of an unrelated package. A folder that the package itself is in is now skipped.
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…ped package of that name - The installer takes the platform package from every kind of dependency. `bunx` looked in `optionalDependencies` only, so it did not use the link into one in `dependencies`. - The optional dependency `first` also matched `@scope/first`, which is another package. - Tests the built-in list: esbuild with no `nativeDependencies`, and with an empty one.
…es_with The call ignored the `None` of `read_package_json`, which the mordant lint `error_collapsed_to_bool` refuses. The package then has no dependencies to look in.
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I re-reviewed after 7626898 and f6d823f and found no bugs; those commits address the points from my earlier inline comments (dependencies kind, the @ scope/<name> false match, the folder above the project, and the built-in-list tests). Because dependencies_with is still a substring match of /<name>/ over realpaths with carve-outs rather than a structural lookup, a human look at that helper would still be worthwhile.
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dependencies_withagainst hoisted and isolated-linker realpaths, scoped and aliased names: the@guard only fires for an unscoped name directly under a scope folder, andreal_dir.starts_with(dir)also covers a linkednode_modulessince both paths resolve through it.is_native_dependencyagainst the installer: both read the workspace root package.json (find_projectandFEATURES.is_mainagree) and share the[]-replaces-defaults rule.- The
find_without_executable_filefallback: a same-named folder with a package.json that lies aboverealbut not abovereal_dir(diverging symlink trees) would still be taken, but only once the package's own bin is already unusable.
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The change touches bunx's resolution of a node_modules/.bin entry that points outside the requested package (src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs), adds a small List::is_native_dependency wrapper in src/install/postinstall_optimizer.rs that reuses the installer's package.json parser, and extends test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts with parameterized cases for every path in the PR table. It touches no auth, crypto, or network surface; the inputs are package.json dependency names and realpaths on the local filesystem. The automated hunt ran dry with no findings, the author's two follow-up commits resolved every point from my prior inline comments, and no CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths. I deferred rather than approved because the core logic is heuristic path-component matching over user-controlled names with three carve-outs, and a third-party bot left an inline comment at the old :621 whose content and resolution I cannot see.
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🟡 Minor · Reject nested dependency targets in the optional-dependency fallback. · bunx_command.rs:625-638
src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:625-638
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject nested dependency targets in the optional-dependency fallback.
The installer accepts a relative
bintarget such asnode_modules/unrelated/bin. It preserves that target and creates the root.binlink when the target exists.dependencies_withthen matches the ancestoroptionaldirectory and can makebunx optionalexecute the nestedunrelatedbinary when the requested file is not executable.Exclude candidates whose resolved target enters a nested
node_modulesdirectory. A plain containment check is not sufficient because the nested target is still lexically insideoptional.Suggested fix
let dir = [parent, b"/", name, b"/"].concat(); // A folder above the project, which the package is in too, or `@scope/<name>`. if real_dir.starts_with(&dir) || bun_paths::basename(parent).starts_with(b"@") { continue; } + let Some(rest) = real.strip_prefix(dir.as_slice()) else { + continue; + }; + if rest.starts_with(b"node_modules/") { + continue; + } found.push([dir.as_slice(), b"package.json"].concat());🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:
- Around line 625-638: Update the dependency-candidate filtering in the loop
over `dependencies.get().properties()` so `found` excludes a candidate when the
path in `real` beneath its `dir` enters a nested `node_modules` directory. Check
for `node_modules` as a path component in the relative remainder, rather than
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Build 130831 is red only because the four jobs of the step darwin any x64 - test-bun expired. No agent took them, so they never ran. The other 179 jobs passed, and the build has no annotation for a failed test. macOS x64 is the one platform not tested on 0f0dbe7. That step needs a retry when an agent is free. |
What does this PR do?
Follow-up to #46468. It fixes the three cases that the reviews of that pull request left open, and three more that the reviews of this one found. All are in
find_in_project, on macOS and Linux.A native dependency is a package in
nativeDependenciesof the project's package.json, or in the built-in list when the project has no such field. For those,bun installlinksnode_modules/.bin/<name>into the platform package: a dependency with anosand acpu.0644is not executable, exit code 1260755.bin/<name>is the bin of one of its optional dependencies, which has anosand acpu0755.bin/<name>is the bin of an optional dependency withoutosandcpuis not executable, exit code 126.bin/<name>, as before #46468dependencies0644is not executable, exit code 126With case 3 alone,
.bin/<name>of an unrelated package would also run in two layouts. Both keep the error ofmain:is not executable, exit code 126.bin/<name>is in@scope/first, and the package has the optional dependencyfirstis not executable, exit code 126dependencies_withreturns every dependency whose name is in the real path of the link, not only the firstis_in_platform_packagealso asksList::is_native_dependency. That reads the project's package.json with the parser of the installer. It looks up thenamein the package's own package.json, so an alias worksfind_without_executable_fileaccepts a link into any optional dependency againis_in_platform_packagelooks independenciesandoptionalDependencies. The installer has no filter on the kinddependencies_withskips a folder that the package itself is independencies_withskips a folder whose parent begins with@How did you verify your code works?
bunx.test.tswhose names begin withafter an install, a package whose optional dependency,a package that cannot runandthe native dependency. I ran each on a build without its fix first, and each failed there. All pass now.after an install, esbuild in a project with nativeDependencies <undefined | []>covers the built-in list. It passed before too.bunx.test.tsandbun-install-native-binlink.test.tspass on macOS arm64, but forshould handle postinstall scripts correctly with symlinked bunx. My machine does not let a copy of bun run from the temp folder. That test asks foresbuild@latest, and a request with a version does not reach this code. Linux is left to CI.