asdf global elixir path:<PATH> doesn't work

[wojtekmach]

Steps to reproduce

$ git clone [email protected]:elixir-lang/elixir.git
$ asdf global elixir path:$PWD/elixir
sed: 1: "s/^elixir .*$/elixir pa ...": bad flag in substitute command: 'U'
rm: /Users/wojtek/src/dotfiles/asdf/.tool-versions.bak: No such file or directory

Furthermore, If I manually add to ~/.tool-versions:

elixir path:/Users/wojtek/elixir

then I get:

$ iex
asdf: No version set for command iex
you might want to add one of the following in your .tool-versions file:

elixir 1.9.0-rc.0-otp-22
elixir 1.9.0-otp-22

Expected behavior

Setting and using path option should work.

Environment

OS: macOS

asdf version: v0.7.2

[Stratus3D]

Thanks for reporting this. Definitely a bug.

[Stratus3D]

I'll have a fix for this out shortly.

[Stratus3D]

I've merged the fix. I'll be tagging a new release of asdf shortly.

[wojtekmach]

Thank you! I tried double checking it:

cd ~/.asdf
git checkout master
git pull origin master
asdf global elixir path:/Users/wojtek/src/elixir

but still see:

iex --version
asdf: No version set for command iex
you might want to add one of the following in your .tool-versions file:

elixir 1.9.0-rc.0-otp-22
elixir 1.9.0-otp-22
elixir git

let me know if you want me to test anything, maybe I'm missing something how to properly use master.

[Stratus3D]

Maybe try asdf reshim? It's possible there is more to this issue.

[wojtekmach]

Yeah, already tried that, no luck.

[Stratus3D]

Yes there is another problem here. Not sure what is going on but it's not working for me either.

[zachdaniel]

@Stratus3D any motion on this?

[Stratus3D]

@zachdaniel I started digging into this again this morning. Hoping to have a PR out to fix this sometime this afternoon!

[Stratus3D]

Fixed!

[rm-rf-etc]

What should we do if this is still happening?

[rm-rf-etc]

Solution for me was to manually create ~/.tool-versions and add the content

elixir 1.10.3-otp-23
erlang 23.0.1

Not sure why, but ~/.tool-versions was not created when I installed asdf, and the getting started doesn't mention this file in the install instructions.

[Stratus3D]

What should we do if this is still happening?

Elixir path:<path to elixir> versions are not working for you? I've verified they work for me on two operating systems.

Not sure why, but ~/.tool-versions was not created when I installed asdf, and the getting started doesn't mention this file in the install instructions.

That file is only ever created when you set a version in a directory using asdf global or asdf local. This is by design. If you don't have a .tool-versions file no tool versions are used.