pod install generates a new checksum in Podfile.lock for every root location

[louiszawadzki]

Hi!

We are facing an issue that is preventing us from adding Skottie to our project.

Steps to reproduce from scratch

• Create React Native project
• Install react-native-skottie: yarn add react-native-skottie
• Install react-native-skia: yarn add @shopify/react-native-skia
• Run (cd ios && bundle exec pod install)
• Install the same project on another machine or at another location
• Run (cd ios && bundle exec pod install)

Expectation: No change in Podfile.lock
Actual behaviour: checksum for pod react-native-skia-skottie has changes in Podfile.lock

This is a problem for us for 2 reasons:

1. Every time a developer runs bundle exec pod install they have a file change in git
2. On our CI we check that there is no git change after installing pods, which fails because of this

Reproduce the issue quickly with this repo

• Clone https://github.com/louiszawadzki/SkottiePodsIssue
• Run yarn and bundle install
• Run (cd ios && bundle exec pod install)
• Check there is a change in Podfile.lock

Investigation

I believe the checksum from cocoapods is generated from the output of pod ipc spec ../node_modules/react-native-skottie/react-native-skia-skottie.podspec - you can run it from the SkottiePodsIssue as yarn podipc and it will write the output to a pod.json file at the root.

When running the command, I see that it includes the absolute path where the project is located on the machine (/Users/me/SkottiePodsIssue in the exemple below): https://github.com/louiszawadzki/SkottiePodsIssue/blob/main/pod.json

This is because we use the absolute path to react-native-skia in the podspec: https://github.com/margelo/react-native-skottie/blob/main/package/react-native-skia-skottie.podspec#L7

Proposed solution

I would suggest to use the ${PROJECT_DIR} env variable that is available during the iOS build phase as suggested here https://stackoverflow.com/a/33359337. However I'm not sure this would work with prepare_command.

If you want to I can create a PR with this change :)

[huytdps13400]

Implemented in #72.

The podspec now keeps the detected React Native Skia path relative instead of serializing __dir__, while Xcode's header path is anchored to PODS_TARGET_SRCROOT. This preserves both nested and hoisted dependency layouts without making the checksum depend on the checkout root.

Before the patch, the same source evaluated through two filesystem paths produced different pod ipc spec hashes. Afterward the serialized specs are byte-identical. I also executed the generated framework-copy command in both layouts and completed the example pod install successfully, alongside Jest, TypeScript, ESLint, package build, and Ruby syntax checks.