Continue to optimize appimage packaging

Author: tw93

bin/builders/BaseBuilder.ts

@@ -123,14 +123,12 @@ export default abstract class BaseBuilder {
         `cd "${npmDirectory}" && ${packageManager} install${registryOption}${peerDepsOption}`,
         timeout,
         buildEnv,
-        this.options.debug,
       );
     } else {
       await shellExec(
         `cd "${npmDirectory}" && ${packageManager} install${peerDepsOption}`,
         timeout,
         buildEnv,
-        this.options.debug,
       );
     }
     spinner.succeed(chalk.green('Package installed!'));
@@ -169,11 +167,24 @@ export default abstract class BaseBuilder {
       ...(process.env.NO_STRIP && { NO_STRIP: process.env.NO_STRIP }),
     };
 
+    // Warn users about potential AppImage build failures on modern Linux systems.
+    // The linuxdeploy tool bundled in Tauri uses an older strip tool that doesn't
+    // recognize the .relr.dyn section introduced in glibc 2.38+.
+    if (process.platform === 'linux' && this.options.targets === 'appimage') {
+      if (!buildEnv.NO_STRIP) {
+        logger.warn(
+          '⚠ Building AppImage on Linux may fail due to strip incompatibility with glibc 2.38+',
+        );
+        logger.warn(
+          '⚠ If build fails, retry with: NO_STRIP=1 pake <url> --targets appimage',
+        );
+      }
+    }
+
     await shellExec(
       `cd "${npmDirectory}" && ${this.getBuildCommand(packageManager)}`,
       this.getBuildTimeout(),
       buildEnv,
-      this.options.debug,
     );
 
     // Copy app
@@ -280,6 +291,12 @@ export default abstract class BaseBuilder {
       fullCommand += ` --target ${target}`;
     }
 
+    // Enable verbose output in debug mode to help diagnose build issues.
+    // This provides detailed logs from Tauri CLI and bundler tools.
+    if (this.options.debug) {
+      fullCommand += ' --verbose';
+    }
+
     return fullCommand;
   }
 

bin/builders/LinuxBuilder.ts

@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ export default class LinuxBuilder extends BaseBuilder {
       fullCommand += ` --features ${features.join(',')}`;
     }
 
+    // Enable verbose output for AppImage builds when debugging or PAKE_VERBOSE is set.
+    // AppImage builds often fail with minimal error messages from linuxdeploy,
+    // so verbose mode helps diagnose issues like strip failures and missing dependencies.
+    if (this.options.targets === 'appimage' && (this.options.debug || process.env.PAKE_VERBOSE)) {
+      fullCommand += ' --verbose';
+    }
+
     return fullCommand;
   }
 

bin/helpers/rust.ts

@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ export async function installRust() {
       IS_WIN ? rustInstallScriptForWindows : rustInstallScriptForMac,
       300000,
       undefined,
-      true,
     );
     spinner.succeed(chalk.green('✔ Rust installed successfully!'));
     ensureRustEnv();

bin/utils/shell.ts

@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@ export async function shellExec(
   command: string,
   timeout: number = 300000,
   env?: Record<string, string>,
-  showOutput: boolean = false,
 ) {
   try {
     const { exitCode } = await execa(command, {
       cwd: npmDirectory,
-      stdio: showOutput ? 'inherit' : ['inherit', 'pipe', 'inherit'],
+      // Use 'inherit' to show all output directly to user in real-time.
+      // This ensures linuxdeploy and other tool outputs are visible during builds.
+      stdio: 'inherit',
       shell: true,
       timeout,
       env: env ? { ...process.env, ...env } : process.env,
@@ -28,17 +29,27 @@ export async function shellExec(
 
     let errorMsg = `Error occurred while executing command "${command}". Exit code: ${exitCode}. Details: ${errorMessage}`;
 
+    // Provide helpful guidance for common Linux AppImage build failures
+    // caused by strip tool incompatibility with modern glibc (2.38+)
     if (
       process.platform === 'linux' &&
       (errorMessage.includes('linuxdeploy') ||
         errorMessage.includes('appimage') ||
         errorMessage.includes('strip'))
     ) {
       errorMsg +=
-        '\n\nLinux AppImage build error. Try one of these solutions:\n' +
-        '  1. Run with: NO_STRIP=true pake <url> --targets appimage\n' +
-        '  2. Use DEB format instead: pake <url> --targets deb\n' +
-        '  3. See detailed solutions: https://github.com/tw93/Pake/blob/main/docs/faq.md';
+        '\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n' +
+        'Linux AppImage Build Failed\n' +
+        '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n' +
+        'Cause: Strip tool incompatibility with glibc 2.38+\n' +
+        '       (affects Debian Trixie, Arch Linux, and other modern distros)\n\n' +
+        'Quick fix:\n' +
+        '  NO_STRIP=1 pake <url> --targets appimage --debug\n\n' +
+        'Alternatives:\n' +
+        '  • Use DEB format: pake <url> --targets deb\n' +
+        '  • Update binutils: sudo apt install binutils (or pacman -S binutils)\n' +
+        '  • Detailed guide: https://github.com/tw93/Pake/blob/main/docs/faq.md\n' +
+        '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━';
     }
 
     throw new Error(errorMsg);