Tree-sitter: Cannot install tree-sitter-cli with cargo

[calixteman]

When I run cargo install tree-sitter-cli, I get:

error: failed to run custom build command for `tree-sitter-cli v0.14.5`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/tmp/cargo-installeMCZ9V/release/build/tree-sitter-cli-2fa18cef284d7c79/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'assertion failed: repo_path.pop()', /home/calixte/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/tree-sitter-cli-0.14.5/build.rs:22:13
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `tree-sitter-cli v0.14.5`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installeMCZ9V`

Caused by:
  build failed

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[maxbrunsfeld]

Oh, it's trying to find the .git file so that it can append the git SHA to the CLI's version number. I should probably make this optional, so that you can build the CLI without necessarily being inside the tree-sitter git repository.

[mcobzarenco]

I am running into the same issue

error: failed to run custom build command for `tree-sitter-cli v0.14.5`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/tmp/cargo-installCCrrKL/release/build/tree-sitter-cli-90cc99a1f1b1f73c/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'assertion failed: repo_path.pop()', /home/marius/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/tree-sitter-cli-0.14.5/build.rs:22:13

I should probably make this optional, so that you can build the CLI without necessarily being inside the tree-sitter git repository.

Is the issue closed because it has been fixed? cargo install should definitely work without cloning the repo -- happy to try to fix if you could point me in the right direction.

[mgsloan]

What's happening here is that it has been fixed in the build.rs in this repo, but the tree-sitter-cli crate hasn't been updated on github in more than a year, so it doesn't have the fix. The version in the repo right now is 0.16.5 but the crate is 0.14.4.

I got this error when doing cargo install tree-sitter-cli in the root dirctory of tree-sitter. It's been a little while since I used cargo, so I didn't realize this would try to build the crate not the local thing.

The solution is to only do cargo build, as described in https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/contributing