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'nimble install nimble' fails looking for: 'system.nim' file #813

Closed wiremoons closed 4 years ago

wiremoons commented 4 years ago

Hi

I upgraded to Nim 1.2.2, building from the source download archive obtained from the nim-lang web downloads page, which went fine. I removed my previous install first, that was also located in ~/.nimble.

I then tried to update nimble to the latest version using: nimble install nimble but this fails looking for a file system.nim that does not exist in my Nim installation.

A secondary issue is that it looks like the version of nimble included with the Nim build is the same as the one it is trying to upgrade too (ie v0.11.4) as well - not sure if this is a feature :)

Additional informaiton below.

Thanks

Simon

simon@alienmoons:~$ nimble -v
nimble v0.11.4 compiled at 2020-06-21 07:17:02
git hash: couldn't determine git hash
simon@alienmoons:~$ nimble install --verbose nimble
    Reading official package list
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
    Cloning latest tagged version: v0.11.4
     Error: Could not read package info file in /tmp/nimble_9086/githubcom_nimlangnimble/nimble.nimble;
        ...   Reading as ini file failed with: 
        ...     Invalid section: .
        ...   Evaluating as NimScript file failed with: 
        ...     Error: cannot open '/home/simon/.nimble/nim/lib/system.nim'
        ... printPkgInfo() failed.
simon@alienmoons:~$ cd .nimble/
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$ find . -name "system.nim" -print
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$ ls nim/lib/
arch/  deprecated/    genode/      impure/  nintendoswitch/  posix/  std/     windows/
core/  experimental/  genode_cpp/  js/      packages/        pure/   system/  wrappers/
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$ ls nim/lib/system/
mm/
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$ ls nim/lib/system/mm/
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$ nim --version
Nim Compiler Version 1.2.2 [Linux: amd64]
Compiled at 2020-06-16
Copyright (c) 2006-2020 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: be34b5abe23e027b71a3a9da67037aac7afea6bc
active boot switches: -d:release
simon@alienmoons:~/.nimble$
wiremoons commented 4 years ago

This issue is caused by Nim not installing correctly, when the Nim install.sh script is run (see output below).

Requesting issue is closed against nimble as this report is an incorrect assigment of cause.

simon@alienmoons:~/scratch/nim-1.2.2$ ls
bin/         build.bat  compiler/        copying.txt    doc/       install.sh*  lib/        nimsuggest/  tools/
build32.bat  build.sh*  compiler.nimble  deinstall.sh*  examples/  koch*        makefile    testament/
build64.bat  c_code/    config/          dist/          icons/     koch.nim     nimpretty/  tests/
simon@alienmoons:~/scratch/nim-1.2.2$ sh install.sh $HOME/.nimble
Nim build detected
copying files...
cp: cannot stat 'bin/nim-gdb': No such file or directory

Install script for Nim now stops, resulting in a failed Nim install with only a partial install completed.