Installation fails

[rvolgers]

When I follow the install instructions (cargo install cargo-geiger), I get:

error[E0283]: type annotations needed
   --> /home/user/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/cargo-0.46.1/src/cargo/util/config/de.rs:471:63
    |
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, env.as_ref()))
    |                                                           ----^^^^^^--
    |                                                           |   |
    |                                                           |   cannot infer type for type parameter `T` declared on the trait `AsRef`
    |                                                           this method call resolves to `&T`
    |
    = note: cannot satisfy `std::string::String: AsRef<_>`
help: use the fully qualified path for the potential candidates
    |
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, <std::string::String as AsRef<OsStr>>::as_ref(env)))
    |                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, <std::string::String as AsRef<std::path::Path>>::as_ref(env)))
    |                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, <std::string::String as AsRef<str>>::as_ref(env)))
    |                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, <std::string::String as AsRef<[u8]>>::as_ref(env)))
    |                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

error: aborting due to previous error

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0283`.
error: failed to compile `cargo-geiger v0.10.2`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installuJT1b6`

Caused by:
  could not compile `cargo`

[jmcconnell26]

@rvolgers, this should have been resolved by #183 (which was put in place to allow us to catch issues like this). Can you let me know if you are still seeing the issue?

[rvolgers]

@jmcconnell26 Sorry, still get the same error. I also tried installing from cargo-geiger git (because I noticed the crate has not been updated for 7 months) but that failed with different compile errors (a lot of variations on error[E0453]: allow(non_upper_case_globals) incompatible with previous forbid). I even tried using both stable and nightly compilers.

[Robbepop]

Getting the same error. Would love to be able to use cargo-geiger again.

error[E0283]: type annotations needed
   --> /home/robrob/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/cargo-0.46.1/src/cargo/util/config/de.rs:471:63
    |
471 |                 seed.deserialize(Tuple2Deserializer(1i32, env.as_ref()))
    |                                                           ----^^^^^^--
    |                                                           |   |
    |                                                           |   cannot infer type for type parameter `T` declared on the trait `AsRef`
    |                                                           this method call resolves to `&T`
    |
    = note: cannot satisfy `std::string::String: AsRef<_>`

error: aborting due to previous error

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0283`.
error: failed to compile `cargo-geiger v0.10.2`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installxHv42Y`

Caused by:
  could not compile `cargo`

[tarcieri]

I believe I've read something about this being an upstream breakage in serde, although I don't have a link offhand

[jmcconnell26]

The issue looks to be this one serde-rs/serde#1967
The problem with v0.10.2 is that there is no restriction on the serde version used, but this issue will hopefully resolve itself once the latest version of serde is released.
The current master should build however @rvolgers (because we can restrict the version of serde to a non broken one), could you let me know what stable version of the rust compiler you tried using and I can try and replicate?

[Camille019]

The command cargo install --locked cargo-geiger fix the install issue for me.

See:
#rust-lang/cargo#9101 (comment)
#rust-lang/cargo#7169 (comment)

cargo-geiger v0.10.2
rustc 1.50.0

[ShadowJonathan]

Running with --locked generates two warnings;

warning: package `miow v0.3.5` in Cargo.lock is yanked in registry `crates.io`, consider running without --locked
warning: package `socket2 v0.3.12` in Cargo.lock is yanked in registry `crates.io`, consider running without --locked

maybe that should be looked into?

[Camille019]

The version 0.11.1 fix this install issue for me.

cargo-geiger v0.11.1
rustc 1.51.0

[anderejd]

Thanks for the feedback @Camille019

Closing.