Linux nvim 0.12.4 and 0.12.5 packages have invalid DT_NEEDED `libunibilium.so..`

[lutianyu2001]

Solution to issue cannot be found in the documentation.

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Issue

Description

The current Linux nvim packages for both 0.12.4 and 0.12.5 appear to contain an invalid DT_NEEDED entry for unibilium.

I reproduced the issue with both versions using both Pixi and Conda.

For nvim 0.12.4 (h6367a8b_0):

$ readelf -d "$CONDA_PREFIX/bin/nvim" | grep unibilium
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libunibilium.so..]

$ nvim --version
nvim: error while loading shared libraries: libunibilium.so..: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The installed unibilium library itself is correct:

$ readelf -d "$CONDA_PREFIX/lib/libunibilium.so.4.0.2" | grep SONAME
0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname: [libunibilium.so.4]

I also directly extracted the original .conda artifact without installing it:

$ cph x nvim-0.12.4-h6367a8b_0.conda --dest /tmp/nvim-conda-raw
$ readelf -d /tmp/nvim-conda-raw/bin/nvim | grep unibilium
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libunibilium.so..]

Therefore, the invalid DT_NEEDED entry is already present in the published .conda artifact and is not introduced by Conda, Pixi, or Rattler during installation.

Scope

I also reproduced the same problem with nvim 0.12.5. So this issue affects at least:

• nvim 0.12.4
• nvim 0.12.5

Expected

DT_NEEDED: libunibilium.so.4

Actual

DT_NEEDED: libunibilium.so..

Temporary Fix

As a temporary workaround, replacing the invalid dependency fixes the executable:

NVIM_BIN="$(readlink -f "$(command -v nvim)")"
patchelf --replace-needed 'libunibilium.so..' 'libunibilium.so.4' "$NVIM_BIN"

After that, nvim starts normally.

Installed packages

# Name                     Version          Build            Channel
_openmp_mutex              4.5              20_gnu           conda-forge
libgcc                     16.2.0           ha9f2e26_4       conda-forge
libgomp                    16.2.0           he0feb66_4       conda-forge
libiconv                   1.18             h0cb94f2_3       conda-forge
libstdcxx                  16.2.0           h934c35e_4       conda-forge
libtree-sitter             0.25.9           h280c20c_0       conda-forge
libutf8proc                2.11.3           hfe17d71_0       conda-forge
libuv                      1.52.1           h280c20c_1       conda-forge
lua-lpeg                   1.1.0            h280c20c_5       conda-forge
luajit-openresty           2.1_20260824     hebe6cf0_0       conda-forge
luv                        1.51.0           h73b1eb8_1       conda-forge
nvim                       0.12.4           h6367a8b_0       conda-forge
patchelf                   0.19.1           hee9eb32_1       conda-forge
unibilium                  2.1.4            hebe6cf0_0       conda-forge

Environment info

active environment : nvim-test
    active env location : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3/envs/nvim-test
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /home/tlu47/.condarc
 populated config files : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3/.condarc
                          /home/tlu47/.condarc
          conda version : 26.7.1
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.14.6.final.0
                 solver : libmamba (default)
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=sapphirerapids
                          __conda=26.7.1=0
                          __glibc=2.28=0
                          __linux=4.18.0=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3/pkgs
                          /home/tlu47/.conda/pkgs
          notices cache : /home/tlu47/.cache/conda/notices
       envs directories : /scratch16/lflorea1/slu/PRGM/miniforge3/envs
                          /home/tlu47/.conda/envs
    temporary directory : /tmp
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/26.7.1 requests/2.34.2 CPython/3.14.6 Linux/4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.x86_64 rocky/8.8 glibc/2.28 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/26.7.0 libmambapy/2.5.0
                UID:GID : 6078:1083
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

[lutianyu2001]

Close as this is duplicated with PR #56.