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help and version not shown if a premake5.lua with errors is present
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Description
What seems to be the problem?
--help or --version doesn't show if there's a 'premake5.lua' with errors in the same folder
~/project-folder$ premake5 --help
Error: module 'premake/my_module' not found:
no field package.preload['premake/my_module']
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/premake/my_module.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/premake/my_module/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/premake/my_module.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/premake/my_module/init.lua'
no file './premake/my_module.lua'
no file './premake/my_module/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/premake/my_module.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/loadall.so'
no file './premake/my_module.so'
no file '/usr/bin/premake/my_module.so'
What did you expect to happen?
Help or version should be independent of the premake5.lua file
What have you tried so far?
When I go back to the parent folder (without a premake5.lua) the version works as expected
~/$ premake5 --version
premake5 (Premake Build Script Generator) 5.0.0-dev
How can we reproduce this?
Create or modify a premake5.lua file with a reference to a missing file module and try premake5 --version
What version of Premake are you using?
5.0.0-dev from master
(as today it is https://github.com/premake/premake-core/commit/670935a23f28e28f895d072c4811437dac6fa269)
Thank you!!
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in a folder containing premake5.lua with a missing module reference, then compare premake5 --help and premake5 --version there with the same commands from the parent folder. Trace the premake5 command-line entry point and confirm that help and version work despite the script error; done means both commands show their expected output in that folder.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100