"nim doc" looks for /usr/doc/nimdoc.css

Task Info (Flyspray)
Opened By	Carlo Capocasa (capocasa)
Task ID	69048
Type	Bug Report
Project	Community Packages
Category	Packages
Version	None
OS	All
Opened	2020-12-21 08:53:20 UTC
Status	Assigned
Assignee	Levente Polyak (anthraxx)

Details

Description:

The nim doc command causes an exception to be thrown due to folder paths incorrectly initialized for the layout in the nim package.

nim doc by default assumes support files such as nimdoc.css to live in ../doc from the location of the nim executable. This works fine if running directly from the build tree, but needs to be adapted by modifying config.cfg for a package within the system directory layout. Relevant variable seems to be conf.prefixDir, but I was unable to set it successfully via a /etc/nim config file or compiler flag.

Steps to reproduce:

pacman -S nim cd /tmp touch foo.nim nim doc foo.nim

Actual output:

Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/nim.cfg' [Conf] Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/config.nims' [Conf] Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/nimdoc.cfg' [Conf] ....Traceback from system (most recent call last) Error: unhandled exception: No such file or directory Additional info: "/usr/doc/nimdoc.css" [OSError]

Expected output:

Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/nim.cfg' [Conf] Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/config.nims' [Conf] Hint: used config file '/etc/nim/nimdoc.cfg' [Conf] Hint: 22665 lines; 0.138s; 20.652MiB peakmem; Debug build; proj: /tmp/foo.nim; out: /tmp/htmldocs/foo.html [SuccessX]