Hi Laurent, Thanks for looking at this. Only recently I updated my plugins and everything broke because of this tree-sitter stuff.
On Sat, Feb 07, 2026 at 11:20:26AM +0100, Laurent Cheylus wrote: > proposal to import a new port textproc/tree-sitter-cli: CLI tool (written in > Rust) allows to develop, test, and use Tree-sitter grammars. > Homepage: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/tree/master/crates/cli > > Tool part not built in textproc/tree-sitter port (build/install only TS lib > and include). Following the instructions at https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter?tab=readme-ov-file#installation I made this minimal init.lua that is enough to exercise the new port: ``` local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim" if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--filter=blob:none", "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git";, "--branch=stable", -- latest stable release lazypath, }) end vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath) local plugins = { { -- Incremental parsing "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter", lazy = false, build = ":TSUpdate", }, } require("lazy").setup(plugins, lazy_opts) require'nvim-treesitter'.install { "c", "cpp", "css", "lua", "markdown", "markdown_inline", "toml", "python", "rust", "vimdoc" } ``` and in a fresh user account, with no pre-existing ~/.local/share/nvim, when invoking `nvim` I get linker errors when it tries to build the grammars: ``` [nvim-treesitter/install/lua] error: Error during "tree-sitter build": ^[[31mError:^[[0m Failed to compile parser Caused by: Parser compilation failed. Stdout: Stderr: ld: error: undefined symbol: calloc >>> referenced by scanner.c >>> /tmp/scanner-87df48.o:(tree_sitter_lua_external_scanner_create) ld: error: undefined symbol: free >>> referenced by scanner.c >>> /tmp/scanner-87df48.o:(tree_sitter_lua_external_scanner_destroy) ld: error: undefined symbol: iswspace >>> referenced by scanner.c >>> /tmp/scanner-87df48.o:(tree_sitter_lua_external_scanner_scan) cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) [nvim-treesitter/install/css] error: Error during "tree-sitter build": ^[[31mError:^[[0m Failed to compile parser etc... ``` Quite impressive that we've managed to not have libc linked :) Can you reproduce? Nothing suggesting any problems in :checkhealth. Other questions/comments: - in textproc/tree-sitter/Makefile, there's an XXX saying that the cli tool should be a new port. Are others in agreement that this is still what we want, or is it better a SUBPACKAGE? Obviously not every arch has Rust and it might add bloat to the dependency tree for things that need tree-sitter but not tree-sitter-cli. - I notice that the tree-sitter-cli port uses a newer version of the source code than our in-tree tree-sitter port. Is that going to cause problems? Is it causing the above linkage problems? If these have to be in-sync, maybe that's an argument for using a SUBPACKAGE? - It would be nice to get the tests working, but I think the shell completions can wait. Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett https://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
