Sublime Text needs libcurl dependency

[dbeckwith]

Describe the bug

See sublimehq/sublime_text#5022. This also affects Sublime Merge.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch Sublime Text in the terminal with sublime_text
2. Observe warnings about failure to load from libcurl.so

Expected behavior

Editor should launch without warnings

Notify maintainers

@jtojnar @wmertens @demin-dmitriy @zimbatm @zookatron

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.77, NixOS, 21.05.4051.9e86f5f7a19 (Okapi)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.16`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-21.05.4051.9e86f5f7a19, nixos-unstable-21.11pre329341.9e70e9f732f"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

Maintainer information:

# a list of nixpkgs attributes affected by the problem
attribute:
- sublime4
- sublime-merge
# a list of nixos modules affected by the problem
module:

[jtojnar]

Right, noticed the same thing with Sublime Merge.

[dbeckwith]

Yes, Sublime Merge has the same issue. Will update the bug to reflect that.

[dbeckwith]

I suppose because of sublimehq/sublime_text#5022 (comment) this is actually pretty low-priority. The warnings are annoying but I guess they only relate to checking for updates which isn't really relevant in NixOS.

[r-burns]

Is it possible to disable the auto update feature entirely? Seems appropriate when it's running from an immutable store path.

[dbeckwith]

Sublime does not auto-update, it just checks for updates and shows a notification. You can disable the update check notification with a user preference. However, this doesn't appear to stop it from attempting to load libcurl on startup. In order to do that it would probably require a feature request for Sublime to only load libcurl on demand when it actually goes to check for updates (if update checks aren't disabled).

[zookatron]

I have fixed this issue in the Sublime Merge application: #146934 I do not use Sublime Text version 4 so I have not had a chance to investigate the issue there yet but the solution is likely the same.

[zookatron]

I have fixed this issue in Sublime Text version 4 as well: #150471 Once this pull request is merged we should be able to close this issue.

[dbeckwith]

Thanks @zookatron!

[dbeckwith]

Also, just FYI, the sublime devs said curl is used for license validity checks and crash reporting as well as update checks.

[blakat360]

This is still an issue when running nix on manjaro.

I have this flake::

{
  description = "Terminal dev environment";

  inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-21.11"; };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }:
    let
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
    in {
      devShells.${system}.default = pkgs.mkShell {
        buildInputs = with pkgs; [
          sublime4
	  curl
        ];
      };
    };
}

and this flake.lock

{
  "nodes": {
    "nixpkgs": {
      "locked": {
        "lastModified": 1659446231,
        "narHash": "sha256-hekabNdTdgR/iLsgce5TGWmfIDZ86qjPhxDg/8TlzhE=",
        "owner": "nixos",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "rev": "eabc38219184cc3e04a974fe31857d8e0eac098d",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
        "owner": "nixos",
        "ref": "nixos-21.11",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "type": "github"
      }
    },
    "root": {
      "inputs": {
        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
      }
    }
  },
  "root": "root",
  "version": 7
}

I get into the shell with NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix develop --impure

running subl lol gives you the errors

[dbeckwith]

@blakat360 This issue was fixed in b1239b8 which is in NixOS 22.05, but you seem to be using an earlier version (21.11). You'll need to upgrade to get this fix. I don't think including curl in the shell buildInputs will properly make it available to the sublime package.

[blakat360]

@dbeckwith that fixed it - serves me right for copy-pastaing a flake template off the web