rust-overlay: querying packages results in "parentheses not balanced" error

[adelbertc]

This is on macOS Sierra (Darwin), Nix version 1.11.13.

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.latest.rustChannels.stable.rust
error: compiling pattern ‘([ 
]*(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")[ 
]+(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")[ 
]+(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")[ 
]+(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")[ 
]+(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")[ 
...
...repeated a lot of times
...
]+(=|[[][[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]][]]|[[][a-zA-Z0-9_."*-]+[]]|[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+|"[^"]*")).*’: parentheses not balanced

[hauntedhost]

I'm seeing this same output on (macOS Sierra 10.12.6) after first run of:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.latest.rustChannels.nightly.rust

$ nix-env --version
nix-env (Nix) 1.11.15

[eqyiel]

I'm also seeing this on Sierra with Nix 1.11.15. Sean Omlor <[email protected]> writes:

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I'm seeing this same output on (macOS Sierra 10.12.6) after first run of: nix-env -iA nixpkgs.latest.rustChannels.nightly.rust $ nix-env --version nix-env (Nix) 1.11.15 — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[eqyiel]

Probably due to this: NixOS/nix#1537

[nbp]

It sounds to me that this might be a miss reported OOM error message from libc++.

You can either switch to Nix 1.12 (after updating to the latest version of nixpkgs-mozilla) or try the work-around as suggested in #33 (comment)