fix(exec): resolve workspace-local bin under the linked install strategy#9648
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…egy (#9639) In continuation of our exploration of using `install-strategy=linked` in the [Gutenberg monorepo](WordPress/gutenberg#75814), which powers the WordPress Block Editor. Under `install-strategy=linked`, `npm exec -w <ws> -- <bin>` ignored a workspace-local bin (provided by a sibling workspace dependency) and fell through to the registry, producing a spurious `E404`. The hoisted strategy ran the local bin correctly. ## Why For a workspace exec, the command computed the local bin directory as `resolve(this.npm.localDir, name, 'node_modules', '.bin')`, i.e. `<root>/node_modules/<name>/node_modules/.bin`. That path only resolves when the workspace is symlinked into the root `node_modules` as `<name>`, which is how the hoisted strategy lays workspaces out. The linked strategy does not hoist workspaces into the root `node_modules`; the workspace's real bin lives at `<workspace>/node_modules/.bin`. libnpmexec walks up from the given bin directory looking for `node_modules/.bin/<bin>`, so starting from the nonexistent hoisted path never reached the workspace's actual bin and the lookup fell back to the registry. ## How Base the local bin directory on the workspace's own path (`runPath`) instead of the hoisted `localDir/<name>` location. This is correct under both strategies: linked finds the bin in the workspace's `node_modules/.bin`, and hoisted still finds the root-hoisted bin because the walk-up continues from the workspace directory to the root `node_modules/.bin`. ## References Fixes #9616 (cherry picked from commit d6fbb55)
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Backport of #9639 to
release/v11.