Unable to resolve symlinked path in plugin on macOS

[tbradsha]

Quick summary

When creating a symlinking to the Jetpack plugin in wp-content/plugins, I get a PHP fatal.

Steps to reproduce

1. Clone the Jetpack repo somewhere: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack
2. Build the plugin: jetpack build plugins/jetpack
3. Create a symlink to the Jetpack plugin folder (e.g. ln -s /path/to/studio/site/wp-content/plugins /path/to/jetpack/repo/projects/plugins/jetpack
4. Visit the site and activate the plugin.

What you expected to happen

The Jetpack plugin should run.

What actually happened

One gets fatal. Oddly it does resolve this path:

Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/jetpack-autoloader/class-autoloader-handler.php

But not this one, which most certainly does exist:

/Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/jetpack_vendor/automattic/jetpack-assets/actions.php

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/jetpack_vendor/automattic/jetpack-assets/actions.php' (include_path='.:') in /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/jetpack-autoloader/class-version-loader.php:109
Stack trace:
#0 /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/jetpack-autoloader/class-autoloader-handler.php(124): Automattic\Jetpack\Autoloader\jpf11009ded9fc4592b6a05b61ce272b3c_jetpackⓥ14_1\al5_0_0\Version_Loader->load_filemap()
#1 /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/jetpack-autoloader/class-autoloader.php(80): Automattic\Jetpack\Autoloader\jpf11009ded9fc4592b6a05b61ce272b3c_jetpackⓥ14_1\al5_0_0\Autoloader_Handler->activate_autoloader(Array)
#2 /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/autoload_packages.php(13): Automattic\Jetpack\Autoloader\jpf11009ded9fc4592b6a05b61ce272b3c_jetpackⓥ14_1\al5_0_0\Autoloader::init()
#3 /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php(144): require_once('/Users/jetpack/GitH...')
#4 /var/www/html/wp-settings.php(526): include_once('/Users/jetpack/GitH...')
#5 /var/www/html/wp-config.php(102): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#6 /var/www/html/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#7 /var/www/html/wp-admin/admin.php(34): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#8 /var/www/html/wp-admin/index.php(10): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#9 {main} thrown in /Users/jetpack/GitHub/jetpack/projects/plugins/jetpack/vendor/jetpack-autoloader/class-version-loader.php on line 109

Impact

One

Available workarounds?

No and the app is unusable

Platform

Mac Silicon

Logs or notes

No response

[Robertght]

I believe this may be related: #20

I'm pinging @wojtekn for an extra look.

[tbradsha]

Indeed, I had asked if I should comment in that issue or make a new one, but never got a reply. I'll note that supposedly symlinks were fixed for macOS (#510), but the comments in that other issue after that fix are hit-or-miss.