Yarn build fails due to ENAMETOOLONG

[rafaelromcar-parabol]

Issue - Bug

• How serious is the bug? P3
• OS: macOS / Linux / Windows / ?
• Browser: Chrome / Safari / Lynx / ? + version
• Node version: node --version
• NPM version: npm --version

I'm getting the following error when building from my usual dev folder:

{"time":"2025-01-10T11:14:12.788Z","level":"info","message":"building mattermost-plugin []"}
$ /home/rafaelromcar-parabol/Parabol/github/ParabolInc/parabol/node_modules/.bin/webpack --config ./prod.webpack.config.js --env=minimize=false
clientRoot /home/rafaelromcar-parabol/Parabol/github/ParabolInc/parabol/packages/mattermost-plugin
[webpack-cli] [Error: ENAMETOOLONG: name too long, open '/home/rafaelromcar-parabol/Parabol/github/ParabolInc/parabol/build/mattermost-plugin_vendors-node_modules_mattermost_compass-icons_components_index_js-node_modules_mui_material_I-cb4761_ae7fcdbbe6845a7f2693.js.map'] {
  errno: -36,
  code: 'ENAMETOOLONG',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/home/rafaelromcar-parabol/Parabol/github/ParabolInc/parabol/build/mattermost-plugin_vendors-node_modules_mattermost_compass-icons_components_index_js-node_modules_mui_material_I-cb4761_ae7fcdbbe6845a7f2693.js.map'
} 

My Parabol folder is in /home/rafaelromcar-parabol/Parabol/github/ParabolInc/parabol which is long but not that long.

Acceptance Criteria (optional)

Users can:

• Build the application in folders that have long paths
  Triage is performed to find the root cause of the bug, timeboxed to ~1 hour.

Estimated effort: 1 hour to triage. More if root cause is already identified.

[rafaelromcar-parabol]

It also failed using the folder /home/rafaelromcar-parabol/parabol-test to build the application

[Dschoordsch]

I think we should shorten the filename, but I'm also curious about your system limits. From what I found the filename limit should be 255 and the path limit around 4096 (it's like this on my archlinux ext4 partition). The full path is less than 255 characters, so it should well fit within these boundaries.

[rafaelromcar-parabol]

@Dschoordsch I've found the same. The path limit is 4096 according to getconf PATH_MAX / and my filesystem is ext4, so 255 for the filename (confirmed with getconf NAME_MAX /).

It should work, but when I try ls mattermost-plugin_vendors-node_modules_mattermost_compass-icons_components_index_js-node_modules_mui_material_I-cb4761_ae7fcdbbe6845a7f2693.js.map it says File name too long 🤷🏼‍♂️