React-native: Could not list contents of '/third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver' - Android Release

[ben-snaize]

Scenario
When creating an Android release APK, the error Could not list contents of '/Users/user/project/node_modules/react-native/third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver' is encountered which causes the build to fail.

Steps to Reproduce
npm i [email protected] --save
cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease && ./gradlew installRelease

There is a folder named third-party-podspecs that contains the GLog.podspec. This probably gets expanded into another folder, third-party on build. Inside of this, there is a file under glog-0.3.4/test-driver which appears to be an alias that does not resolve.

There is a temporary fix which is to delete the third-party folder. Please can we look at getting this one corrected?

[ms88privat]

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14417

[nehvaleem]

also having this issue

[g4laura]

I'm also having this issue.

[itinance]

This worked for me: delete the broken test-driver-link as follows

unlink node_modules/react-native/third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver

[kelset]

Same issue over here, fix by @itinance works 🔥

[tapz]

In addition to unlinking, I also had to remove third-party/glog-0.3.4 in the project root.

I'm using RN 0.46.1 and Yarn.

[ujwal-setlur]

With RN 0.46.3, @itinance solution worked for me.

[ujwal-setlur]

This issue occurs in 0.46.3 only if you do an android build after you do an iOS build. That link gets created during the iOS build. If you do an android build after a fresh npm install, it's fine.

It's ironic that I ran into this issue after I upgraded after https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14382 was fixed in 0.46.3

[ujwal-setlur]

Please see https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/5c53f89dd86160301feee024bce4ce0c89e8c187#commitcomment-23107918

[ujwal-setlur]

This is fixed in master branch. Guess we need to wait for 0.47.0

[hramos]

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[alexgvozden]

issue does happen, I deleted the folder third_party and it worked...
I have this issue with XCode too which running ios-install-glog solves

[brianinator]

After unlink, I ran the command and get stuck at :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets #10078

[tspringborg]

I am also experiencing this issue.

tried cleaning with

yarn run clean
rm -rf node_modules
yarn install
rm -rf android/.gradle
rm -rf android/build
rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-* && watchman watch-del-all && npm cache verify
rm -rf $TMPDIR/haste-map-react-native-packager-*

But still getting Could not list contents of '/Users/.../sammenholdetapp/third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver'. Couldn't follow symbolic link.

did unlink third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver and that seemed to work

[thomashagstrom]

We're on react-native 0.55.3 and get this for release build Android, so I don't understand why it's closed.

We have no node_modules/react-native/third-party folder, as seen in screenshot.

gradlew assembleRelease -s

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Failed to capture snapshot of input files for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' property '$1' during up-to-date check.

  Could not list contents of '/Users/thomas/Source/ParkeraApp.React/mobile/third-party/glog-0.3.4/test-driver'. Couldn't follow symbolic link.

• Try:
  Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

• Exception is:
  org.gradle.api.UncheckedIOException: Failed to capture snapshot of input files for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' property '$1' during up-to-date check.