LeveldbJournalNativeSpec fails on macOS ARM64 because leveldbjni-all lacks an arm64 library

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Description

LeveldbJournalNativeSpec fails on Apple Silicon because Pekko currently uses org.fusesource.leveldbjni:leveldbjni-all:1.8, whose macOS native library does not contain an ARM64 slice.

Reproduction

Environment:

• macOS 26.5.1
• uname -m: arm64
• Java 25.0.1

Run:

sbt "persistence-tck / Test / testOnly org.apache.pekko.persistence.journal.leveldb.LeveldbJournalNativeSpec"

The same failure is reached from validatePullRequest.

Actual error:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load library
...
fat file, but missing compatible architecture
(have x86_64,i386, need arm64e or arm64)

Root cause

project/Dependencies.scala defines:

val levelDBNative =
  "org.fusesource.leveldbjni" % "leveldbjni-all" % "1.8" % "optional;provided"

The bundled macOS library reports:

META-INF/native/osx/libleveldbjni.jnilib:
Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: x86_64 i386

It has no arm64 slice.

Workarounds investigated

The HawtJNI property -Dlibrary.leveldbjni.path=<dir> is recognized and attempts to load a library from the supplied directory. However, the ARM library in org.openlabtesting.leveldbjni:leveldbjni-linux64-aarch64:1.8 is a Linux binary:

ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64

Pointing library.leveldbjni.path at that library on macOS fails with:

slice is not valid mach-o file

The org.openlabtesting.leveldbjni group has four artifacts in Maven Central (leveldbjni-project, leveldbjni, leveldbjni-linux64-aarch64, and leveldbjni-all) and no macOS ARM64 artifact. Its leveldbjni-all:1.8 still bundles the old x86_64+i386 macOS library.

Huawei variants 1.8-hw-20191105 and 1.8-hw-aarch64 also add Linux AArch64 ELF libraries while retaining the old x86_64+i386 macOS library.

Possible direction

These Maven Central artifacts contain a real Mach-O ARM64 library and passed a local JNI open/put/get/close/destroy smoke test:

• io.github.tronprotocol:leveldbjni-all:1.18.3
• com.halibobor:leveldbjni-all:1.23.2

A replacement needs compatibility review before adoption: these artifacts use a different org.iq80.leveldb API dependency and do not bundle the Windows native DLLs present in the current artifact. A platform-specific test dependency or another approach may be needed to avoid regressions and non-reproducible published POMs.

Expected behavior

The native LevelDB spec should either run successfully on macOS ARM64 with an Apache-compatible supported dependency, or the unsupported platform should be handled explicitly without breaking the full PR validation.

References

• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/fusesource/leveldbjni/leveldbjni-all/1.8/
• https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:%22org.openlabtesting.leveldbjni%22&rows=200&wt=json
• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/github/tronprotocol/leveldbjni-all/1.18.3/
• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/halibobor/leveldbjni-all/1.23.2/