Option parsing failed: Unknown option --appimage-version

[lalten]

I cloned the repo and ran ARCH=x86_64 ci/build.sh. It fails with

+ /tmp/appimage-test-0oPFX/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --version
appimagetool, continuous build (commit 672b3d0), build <local dev build> built on 2022-04-02 11:42:47 UTC
+ /tmp/appimage-test-0oPFX/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-version
Option parsing failed: Unknown option --appimage-version
+ error
+ echo 'Error: command failed'
Error: command failed

Interestingly this does not happen on the CI builds (e.g. the latest)... Any hint what I'm doing wrong?

Full log: https://pastebin.com/N6LMW5dn

[lcarlotto]

I also have the same problem, performed the clone of the project, already at the first compilation:

execute:
env ARCH=x86_64 bash ci/build.sh

+ /tmp/appimage-test-Wz66k/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --version
appimagetool, continuous build (commit b719a7f), build <local dev build> built on 2022-10-07 06:32:21 UTC
+ /tmp/appimage-test-Wz66k/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-version
Option parsing failed: Unknown option --appimage-version
+ error
+ echo 'Error: command failed'
Error: command failed
+ exit 1
+ cleanup
+ [[ -d /tmp/appimage-test-Wz66k ]]
+ rm -r /tmp/appimage-test-Wz66k

In addition, the "AppImageKit/out" folder is present and contains the generated files, it is not deleted by build.sh.

[lcarlotto]

The problem occurs on the second test:

# print version and update information
"$appimagetool" --version || error  # should not fail
"$appimagetool" --appimage-version || error  # should not fail
"$appimagetool" --appimage-updateinformation || error  # should not fail

but if I run the same test on the files in the / out folder, everything works.

The problem is quite minor, as it occurs just before it finishes, blocking the deletion of temporary files and the modification of file names:

# remove binaries from output directory
ls -al out/
rm out/appimagetool
rm out/{validate,digest}

# make sure the runtime contains the magic bytes
hexdump -Cv out/runtime | head -n 1 | grep "41 49 02 00"
# fix filename for upload
mv out/runtime out/runtime-"$ARCH"

# fix filename for upload
mv out/AppRun out/AppRun-"$ARCH"

[msojocs]

same problem, the program can not identify " --appimage-version"

[msojocs]

I think there has a problem with the second environment.

[msojocs]

The block of "APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN" is executed too early, we need to move it behind "updateinformation".

So, we can see the successful information.

[probonopd]

I tested this with https://github.com/AppImage/appimagetool/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage from https://github.com/AppImage/appimagetool/releases/tag/continuous and it seems to be working with that version, which is using https://github.com/AppImage/type2-runtime internally:

$ Downloads/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-version
AppImage runtime version: https://github.com/AppImage/type2-runtime/commit/0899763

The binaries in this repo will soon be superseded by the ones I mentioned, so it's probably not worth to backport the fix.