`pb sync` gives "Error: Missing var value sync"

[tkchia]

Hello @justinian,

For some reason I am unable to build the project on my Ubuntu Focal system:

$ git clone https://github.com/justinian/jsix.git
$ cd jsix
...
$ sudo apt install python3-pip
...
$ pip3 install bonnibel
...
$ sudo apt install clang-10
...
$ pb sync
.../bonnibel/config.py:9: YAMLLoadWarning: calling yaml.load() without Loader=... is deprecated,
 as the default Loader is unsafe. Please read https://msg.pyyaml.org/load for full details.
  confdata = load(open(filename, "r"))
Generating build files for jsix 0.10.0-3daa07e...
Error: Missing var value sync

This is with the recent code commit 3daa07e for this repository.

Any clues on what I might be doing wrong? Thank you!

[justinian]

Ah, my apologies, this is an error in my README - I had tried writing version 2 of pb in Rust, so you'll need to install it - either from the releases in that project or via cargo by installing Rust and Cargo and then using:

cargo install bonnibel

Honestly, this feels like it might be a little much for just a build tool, so I'll likely just go back to Python. It seems easier for people to do a pip install since Python is already installed everywhere. I just haven't actually finished reworking that yet.

[tkchia]

Hello @justinian,

cargo install bonnibel

Thanks! So I guess I should be looking at the bonnibel_rs repository rather than bonnibel.

I have now managed to get pb sync working. There is just one minor issue I encountered --- I had to set the directory for temporary files ($TMPDIR) to somewhere in the same filesystem as my work directory, e.g.

$ TMPDIR="`pwd`" pb sync

Otherwise this happens:

$ pb sync
Downloading sysroot-llvm8-20190706.tar.bz2...
...
Error: failed to persist temporary file: Invalid cross-device link (os error 18)

Honestly, this feels like it might be a little much for just a build tool, so I'll likely just go back to Python.

The choice is yours, I suppose. :-)

Thank you!