The metal-darwin-arm64-piper backend crashed at launch on macOS:
DYLD "Library missing"
Library not loaded: @rpath/libucd.dylib
Referenced from: .../piper
Reason: no LC_RPATH's found
The piper binary links libucd, libespeak-ng, libpiper_phonemize and
libonnxruntime via @rpath, but ships with no LC_RPATH, so dyld cannot
expand @rpath and aborts before piper runs. The libraries themselves are
already bundled in package/lib/ by package.sh.
Additionally, package.sh's architecture detection only handled the Linux
glibc loaders (/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1)
and otherwise hit `echo "Error: Could not detect architecture"; exit 1`,
so on macOS packaging failed outright.
Add a Darwin branch (before the Linux checks) that skips the glibc/ld.so
bundling macOS has no use for and instead runs
`install_name_tool -add_rpath @loader_path/lib` on the piper binary, so
@rpath resolves to the bundled package/lib/ directory.
Also mirror sherpa-onnx/opus in run.sh: export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on
Darwin (LD_LIBRARY_PATH is Linux-only) as a defensive fallback.
Validated by hand on Apple Silicon: with the rpath added, piper
synthesized a real WAV. The darwin build is validated in CI.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
fix(backends): quote $CURDIR in run.sh so backends work in paths with spaces
The backend launcher scripts derive their own directory with
CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)") and then referenced it unquoted as
$CURDIR (e.g. [ -f $CURDIR/lib/ld.so ], export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:...,
exec $CURDIR/<binary> "$@"). When a backend is installed under a path that
contains a space - notably macOS's ~/Library/Application Support/... - bash
word-splits the unquoted $CURDIR, so the test builtin fails with
"binary operator expected" and exec tries to run ".../Library/Application",
yielding "No such file or directory". The backend never starts, surfacing as
a gRPC "service not ready" error and an HTTP 500. Quote $CURDIR (and the
realpath "$0") in every affected run.sh; no logic changes.
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
