It seems that dev-lang/nim is compiled in some old way, and as a result nimble (nim's package manager) is missing, however since 0.15 version it's bundled inot nim. See https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html for reference.
From what I read in https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html there is no installation instructions at all. https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/install.txt#L27 describes install.sh script which is supposed to install build results but it lacks some nim binaries. I'll add them manually.
I think the issue is that command "./koch tools" is missing, which should build nim tools like nimble and others. > To complete the installation you should also build Nim's tools like > ``nimsuggest``, ``nimble`` or ``nimgrep`` via:: > > nim c koch > koch tools And I didn't find koch in installed files. It's only present during merge in emerge workdir. So that's a place to compile all those tools. Probably adding "tools" flag enabled by default would be nice idea.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=be0fece992d7f4d1d9487860fecb95d78ebcd479 commit be0fece992d7f4d1d9487860fecb95d78ebcd479 Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-10-10 09:50:54 +0000 Commit: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-10-10 09:51:06 +0000 dev-lang/nim: build and install 'nimble' and other tools, bug #631512 Defauld './koch install' installs only 'nim' binary as it uses 'compiler.ini' configurations. But there is no easy way to install other tools. After this change ebuild builds and installs tools explicitly to expose them to users. Reported-by: s@zxc.pp.ua Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631512 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.11, Repoman-2.3.3 dev-lang/nim/nim-0.17.2-r1.ebuild | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ dev-lang/nim/nim-0.17.2.ebuild | 6 +++- 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(In reply to s from comment #2) > I think the issue is that command "./koch tools" is missing, which should > build nim tools like nimble and others. > > > To complete the installation you should also build Nim's tools like > > ``nimsuggest``, ``nimble`` or ``nimgrep`` via:: > > > > nim c koch > > koch tools > > And I didn't find koch in installed files. It's only present during merge in > emerge workdir. So that's a place to compile all those tools. > > Probably adding "tools" flag enabled by default would be nice idea. Yes, building tools is straightforward. Installation is not (looks like it's not supported at all). I've copied binaries manually as: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=be0fece992d7f4d1d9487860fecb95d78ebcd479 but i didn't test it much. Chances are more files are needed to the tools to work properly in standalone mode.
