From 5296f487a840b2b9ffc28ed9b45d223a32359973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeffrey Morgan <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:37:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] llm: attempt to evaluate symlinks, but do not fail (#9089)

provides a better approach to #9088 that will attempt to
evaluate symlinks (important for macOS where 'ollama' is
often a symlink), but use the result of os.Executable()
as a fallback in scenarios where filepath.EvalSymlinks
fails due to permission erorrs or other issues
---
 discover/path.go | 4 ++++
 llm/server.go    | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/discover/path.go b/discover/path.go
index 23aa8110d..8a20d8c21 100644
--- a/discover/path.go
+++ b/discover/path.go
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ var LibOllamaPath string = func() string {
 		return ""
 	}
 
+	if eval, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(exe); err == nil {
+		exe = eval
+	}
+
 	var libPath string
 	switch runtime.GOOS {
 	case "windows":
diff --git a/llm/server.go b/llm/server.go
index f88963060..fd027a535 100644
--- a/llm/server.go
+++ b/llm/server.go
@@ -320,6 +320,10 @@ func NewLlamaServer(gpus discover.GpuInfoList, model string, f *ggml.GGML, adapt
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to lookup executable path: %w", err)
 		}
 
+		if eval, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(exe); err == nil {
+			exe = eval
+		}
+
 		// TODO - once fully switched to the Go runner, load the model here for tokenize/detokenize cgo access
 		s := &llmServer{
 			port:        port,