Assimilate the binaries! 馃
An assimilated APE binary converts between the "fat" format to the native format for the provided binary format and CPU.
This solves a huge problem with POSIX runfiles. We were using the APE launchers to make sure we avoid binfmt_misc issues on the host. That required a small POSIX shell script to launch the binary. By assimilating the binaries, we do not need any Shell/Batch to get going, we just execute the binary!
We use the target constraints for the ape_assimilate rule to create the correct binary from the "fat" APE.
Edited by Matthew Clarkson