Installation error

[folofjc]

I am trying to install on Ubuntu 20.04.

$ make PREFIX=/usr                                                                                                                                                                                     nim c -d:versionGit -d:release -d:pathext:/usr/share/taskopen/scripts -d:editor:vi -d:open:run-mailcap --outdir:./ src/taskopen.nim
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DIRPATH/taskopen/src/exec.nim(12, 19) Error: type mismatch: got <string, env: StringTableRef>
but expected one of: 
proc execCmdEx(command: string;
              options: set[ProcessOption] = {poStdErrToStdOut, poUsePath}): tuple[
    output: TaintedString, exitCode: int]
  first type mismatch at position: 2
  unknown named parameter: env

expression: execCmdEx(cmd, env = env)
make: *** [Makefile:28: taskopen] Error 1

My shell is bash.

[jschlatow]

@folofjc Could you please tell me your nim version (nim -v)?

[folofjc]

Nim Compiler Version 1.0.6 [Linux: amd64]
Compiled at 2020-02-27
Copyright (c) 2006-2019 by Andreas Rumpf

active boot switches: -d:release

I installed from sudo apt install nim, so this is probably the newest on Ubuntu 20.04

[jschlatow]

Unfortunately, your version does not support passing environment variables to execCmdEx. This feature has been introduced with nim version 1.4.

There are pre-built binaries available that you may try. Alternatively, you may try choosenim or using a docker container. See https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html

[folofjc]

Okay, thanks. Could you update the README to specify this? Right now all it says is that nim is required, not that a certain version is required.

[folofjc]

Okay, I got past that error. When I try to do sudo make PREFIX=/usr install, I get an error that I need pandoc. Could you also add that to the dependencies in the README?

[jschlatow]

Okay, I got past that error. When I try to do sudo make PREFIX=/usr install, I get an error that I need pandoc. Could you also add that to the dependencies in the README?

pandoc is only required for updating the man pages. Normally, this is done by me but it can happen that timestamps change so that make tries to rebuilt the man pages. I am going to remove the pandoc dependency from the install target. In the meantime, you can remove the $(MANFILES) target from Makefile instead of installing pandoc.

[folofjc]

Got it, thanks!