Adding 'timex v3.7' fails Phoenix service to start for prase_trans

[abhishekkr]

Steps to reproduce

• when I add {:timex, "~> 3.7"} to a new Phoenix project I created for learning and try start service with mix deps.get && iex -S mix phx.server it fails with following errors...

Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.3.2.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]

===> Analyzing applications...
===> Compiling parse_trans
===> Compiling src/exprecs.erl failed
src/exprecs.erl:none: error in parse transform 'parse_trans_codegen':
exception error: undefined function erl_syntax:string/1
  in function  parse_trans:get_file/1 (LOCAL_PATH/calendo/deps/parse_trans/src/parse_trans.erl, line 227)
  in call from parse_trans:initial_context/2 (/LOCAL_PATH/calendo/deps/parse_trans/src/parse_trans.erl, line 299)
  in call from parse_trans_codegen:parse_transform/2 (LOCAL_PATH/calendo/deps/parse_trans/src/parse_trans_codegen.erl, line 147)
  in call from compile:foldl_transform/3 (compile.erl, line 1147)
  in call from compile:fold_comp/4 (compile.erl, line 418)
  in call from compile:internal_comp/5 (compile.erl, line 402)
  in call from compile:'-internal_fun/2-anonymous-0-'/2 (compile.erl, line 229)

even doing mix deps.compile prase_trans or deps.clean & deps.get fails

My local setup is Fedora/Linux with OTP 24, Elixir 1.13.4, Phoenix 1.6.10, rebar 3.19.0, Erts 12.3.2.1 and entire app code is here.

Description of issue

• The error occur as soon I add timex dep to mix and run service without any extra code. So it gets introduced by one of the constructs from it.
• The error is weird since erl_syntax:string/1 seems to be a valid call which gets notified as undefined in error stack.

[abhishekkr]

I was missing erlang-syntax_tools package.

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When I try it on a container, there is no issue... will close the issue. I'm using latest package, will re-install or just use container for the while.