Iulian7
Hi guys,
I have an Erlang dependency which does not compile with mix but compiles fine with rebar3. The output when compiling with DEBUG=1 is:
...
===> Building escript...
===> Creating escript file /Users/iulian/elixir/riak/deps/cuttlefish/_build/default/bin/cuttlefish
===> processing <<"cuttlefish">>
===> new deps of <<"cuttlefish">> found to be []
===> processing <<"getopt">>
===> Uncaught error in rebar_core. Run with DEBUG=1 to see stacktrace or consult rebar3.crashdump
===> Uncaught error: {badmatch,error}
===> Stack trace to the error location:
[{rebar_prv_escriptize,find_deps_of_deps,3,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_prv_escriptize.erl"},
{line,246}]},
{rebar_prv_escriptize,find_deps,2,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_prv_escriptize.erl"},
{line,240}]},
{rebar_prv_escriptize,escriptize,2,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_prv_escriptize.erl"},
{line,104}]},
{rebar_prv_escriptize,do,1,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_prv_escriptize.erl"},
{line,80}]},
{rebar_core,do,2,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_core.erl"},
{line,153}]},
{rebar_hooks,run_provider_hooks_,6,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_hooks.erl"},
{line,49}]},
{rebar_hooks,run_all_hooks,6,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_hooks.erl"},
{line,16}]},
{rebar_prv_compile,compile,3,
[{file,"/home/tristan/Devel/rebar3/_build/default/lib/rebar/src/rebar_prv_compile.erl"},
{line,129}]}]
...
I am running Elixir 1.4.5, Erlang/OTP 20 on macOS Sierra. I also made sure the rebar3 mix uses is the correct version using mix local.rebar rebar3. The rebar3 version is 3.4.2.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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NobbZ
Getopt uses legacy rebar, try setting manager rebar for it.
Iulian7
I set
{:getopt, "~> 0.8.2", manager: :rebar3, override: true}, however I still get the same error.NobbZ
I said
rebar, notrebar3.Iulian7
Unfortunately same situation. I also made sure to update mix local.rebar rebar.
Again this only happens if I compile with mix. If I compile the dependency with
rebar3it compiles.EDIT: I now have
{:getopt, "~> 0.8.2", manager: :rebar, override: true}Iulian7
If it helps, the dependency is riak_core_ng | Hex which in turn depends on cuttlefish | Hex (the culprit in this discussion).
georosz
I had similar, but not the same issue before, also I use linux not OSX
I managed to solve it by reinstalling erlang and elixir.
https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/cannot-compile-unicode-util-compat/6724
Iulian7
Well I also tried that but it didn’t work. It’s very frustrating now. If I compile
getoptwith mix usingmix deps.compile getoptit works. If I compile them individually it works except forcuttlefishwhich gives that error. This is so strange.I again tried to compile the whole thing with
rebar3and it works fine. I even compiled with~/.mix/rebar3for sanity check to make suremixis not using some strange version.peerreynders
Ok - grasping at straws here:
On Digital Ocean/Ubuntu there seems to be an emerging pattern that compiling certain applications with
rebar3throughmixcan run into trouble in a memory constrained environment (512 MB RAM).https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/3857#issuecomment-220746100
Now, I haven’t seen anything comparable for OS X - but it may be worth firing up Activity Monitor and watching the “Memory” tab to see what is happening to the physical memory consumption during compilation:
Iulian7
Interesting. I observed the memory usage. It doesn’t really go up and there is no swapping. It is worth noting I have 16GB of RAM. The usage is constant at about 8GB.
This is also followed in this issue: Problems compiling (warnings_as_errors) · Issue #23 · Kyorai/riak_core · GitHub.
peerreynders
Well, that rule’s that out.
Though I wonder if there is a way to see exactly what information is passing from
mixtorebar3- in caserebar3is simply choking on some “bad (truncated?) configuration information”.