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Build the AppImage without FUSE appimagetool self-mounts to run, which needs libfuse.so.2 and a fusermount binary. Alloy has neither, so the release step failed there while working on Pop. APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 makes the runtime extract itself instead. Verified by hiding fusermount from PATH: without the flag appimagetool exits 127 with "Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup", with it the build succeeds. On a host that has FUSE the flag is a no-op, so the existing build is untouched. The flag goes in the script because dist/recipes/linux.rhai runs it through sh_ok with no environment of its own. Also write down where appimagetool comes from: fetched on demand, not vendored, not on any restore list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-21 23:48 UTC

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Commit: d5c4e114a8d5967d18784db1be1e4869c3869c17

Parent: 734a668

1 file changed, +13 insertions, -1 deletion

M dist/build-appimage.sh +13 -1

			@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@
36	36		chmod +x "$APPDIR/AppRun"
37	37
38	38		# Step 3: Get appimagetool
	39	+	#
	40	+	# Fetched on demand, not vendored and not on any restore list. dist/tools/ is
	41	+	# gitignored on purpose: this is a 15 MB third-party binary and the repo is
	42	+	# published, so committing it would put someone else's release artifact in our
	43	+	# history for no gain. A machine with no cached copy downloads it here, which
	44	+	# means the first release on a fresh machine needs network. That is the whole
	45	+	# cost, and it is the only thing about this tool that is not self-healing.
	46	+	#
	47	+	# The URL names the `continuous` tag, so the tool can change under us between
	48	+	# releases. Pinning it to a numbered release is a change to what builds the
	49	+	# artifact, so it is not made silently here.
39	50		mkdir -p "$TOOLS_DIR"
40	51		APPIMAGETOOL="$TOOLS_DIR/appimagetool-${ARCH}.AppImage"
41	52		if [ ! -x "$APPIMAGETOOL" ]; then
			@@ -51,7 +62,8 @@
51	62		APPIMAGE_PATH="$DIST_DIR/$APPIMAGE_NAME"
52	63		rm -f "$APPIMAGE_PATH"
53	64
54		-	ARCH="$ARCH" "$APPIMAGETOOL" "$APPDIR" "$APPIMAGE_PATH"
	65	+	# Extract and run, since appimagetool cannot self-mount without libfuse.so.2 on Alloy.
	66	+	ARCH="$ARCH" APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 "$APPIMAGETOOL" "$APPDIR" "$APPIMAGE_PATH"
55	67
56	68		# Cleanup
57	69		rm -rf "$APPDIR"