sys.so not found if julia is a soft link

[dpinol]

On my machine, I have softlinks to all available julia versions under my $HOME/.local/bin folder

(sc-pyjulia) ➜  sc-pyjulia git:(develop) ✗ ll ~/.local/bin 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dani dani    9 May 30 09:50 julia -> julia-1.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dani dani   32 May 26 08:01 julia-1.7 -> /opt/julia/julia-1.7.3/bin/julia
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dani dani   36 Jun  3 16:55 julia-1.8 -> /opt/julia/julia-1.8.0-rc1/bin/julia

But with this setup, after version 0.92, I get the followin error.

ERROR: could not load library "/home/dani/.local/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so"
/home/dani/.local/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I suggest creating this method in juliapkg

def bin_dir():
    exec = executable()
    return os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(exec))

and use it in juliacall. I can create MR if you agree with this approach.

thanks

[cjdoris]

Oops! I believe I have fixed it on the main branch. Please try it out and let me know.

[dpinol]

it works. thanks!

[johnnychen94]

@cjdoris can you tag a juliapkg release for this fix? Many thanks!

[cjdoris]

I've just made a release.