Essential dependency not found

[jobidon]

Hi, first time using bish-bosh and shellfire and am running into something unexpected.
I think the issue is shellfire related, but if not, I can repost in bish-bosh instead.

here's what I'm trying:

• download https://github.com/raphaelcohn/bish-bosh/releases/download/release_2015.0629.0920-4/bish-bosh_2015.0629.0920-2_all
• rename and copy to ~/bish-bosh
• Add that folder in path
• create test file test.mqtt:

bishbosh_clientId=12

topic='a/b/c'
verb='NOW'

bishbosh_publishText 0 ${topic} no ${verb}

I then run it:

$ ./bish-bosh -- test.mqtt 
bish-bosh: FAIL: Essential dependency '_bishbosh_connection_validate_isUtf8_iconv' not found on the PATH (with arguments '')
bish-bosh: FAIL: Essential dependency 'bishbosh_connection_validate_removeCharacters' not found on the PATH (with arguments '#*\000
bish-bosh: FAIL: Essential dependency '_bishbosh_connection_validate_isUtf8_asciiNul' not found on the PATH (with arguments '')
bish-bosh: FAIL: The argument 'bishbosh_publish_topicName' ('a/b/c') contains a wildcard ('#' or '+')
$ uname -a
Linux taipei 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 11 17:09:32 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It seems like the shellfire bundle is not able to locate the missing functions, yet I have confirmed that the functions are indeed embedded in the executable, and that the PATH includes the current dir.
I am running an atomic distro: Fedora Kinoite and I suspect that might be part of the problem. This is NOT in a toolbox, it is straight in the native bash shell.
Any idea what might be going on?

thanks!