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8039 :: Nim Devel - how to (re-) build it?

[2021-05-26T15:47:19+02:00]

HJarausch (orginal) [2021-05-26T15:47:19+02:00] view original
Recently, I cannot rebuild Nim devel from source any more (on my Gentoo Linux system).

I get this error
```
getDocHacksJs: cmd: /usr/bin/nim js -d:release /usr/tools/dochack/dochack.nim

oserr.nim(94)            raiseOSError

Error: unhandled exception: No such file or directory
```
What can I do about this?

Thanks for a hint, Helmut

kaushalmodi (orginal) [2021-05-26T16:16:03+02:00] view original

You need the doc/ dir in the same dir as lib/. The dochack.nim looks for css files from that doc/ dir.

HJarausch (orginal) [2021-05-26T16:54:09+02:00] view original

That's the case.

I don't know where the path /usr/tools/dochack/dochack.nim comes from. There is no /usr/tools on my machine here.

shirleyquirk (orginal) [2021-05-27T10:47:16+02:00] view original

related: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/14424

nim looks for dochack.nim and nimdoc.css in a path relative to the location of the compiler binary

so if you've installed nim in /usr/bin like a sane person, it assumes /usr/tools exists

choosenim will build devel from source for you