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The second research paper from 2017 references pex.
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Not sure I understand "This method also has the problem of
only applying to Python modules" given the rest of the paper which is all about python modules (sometimes with native extensions, but Pex handled those back then). The 1st criticism is likely accurate though. At least at that time. The --no-build-isolation option exposed in <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/pull/1561> may answer that though.

Aha - they also had custom built native libs with embedded search paths they had to edit. Nasty problem. They didn't land that far off xar + a chroot pivot it sounds like and the timing is similar.

Its funny their jmake reference links to pantsbuild's copy! It looks like kenai is dead though: <https://github.com/pantsbuild/jmake/commit/b9d9a983a7cbb0c6bf31dca526916403088fa5e9>

We get (got) similar attention for jarjar which was also not ours and just rescued from googlecode when it died.