nim creates empty pkgs folders in the pwd when run

[shassard]

When running the nim program via the CLI in linux, empty folders named pkgs are created in each directory where the nim executable is executed.

Example

20:18.stephen@yogabba:~% mkdir tmp   
20:18.stephen@yogabba:~% cd tmp
20:18.stephen@yogabba:~/tmp% nim --version
Nim Compiler Version 1.4.0 [Linux: amd64]
Compiled at 2020-10-18
Copyright (c) 2006-2020 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: bdcd87afca238a0a7b2c70971827cf9172817b12
active boot switches: -d:release
20:18.stephen@yogabba:~/tmp% ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 stephen stephen   8 Oct 19 20:18 ./
drwx------ 1 stephen stephen 466 Oct 19 20:18 ../
drwxr-xr-x 1 stephen stephen   0 Oct 19 20:18 pkgs/

Perhaps this is related to some environment variable being unset in my environment? My env looks like:

20:18.stephen@yogabba:~/tmp% env
COLORFGBG=15;0
COLORTERM=truecolor
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DESKTOP_SESSION=/usr/share/xsessions/plasma
DISPLAY=:0
GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5
GDK_SCALE=2
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/stephen/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/stephen/.config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/stephen/.gtkrc:/home/stephen/.config/gtkrc
HOME=/home/stephen
KDE_APPLICATIONS_AS_SCOPE=1
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
KDE_SESSION_UID=1000
KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5
KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE=:1.99
KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION=/Sessions/1
KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW=/Windows/1
KONSOLE_VERSION=200802
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LOGNAME=stephen
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/stephen
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
OLDPWD=/home/stephen
PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN=/run/user/1000/kwallet5.socket
PATH=/home/stephen/.nimble/bin:/home/stephen/.nimble/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
PROFILEHOME=
PWD=/home/stephen/tmp
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP-1=2;DP-1=2;DP-2=2;
SESSION_MANAGER=local/yogabba:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/598,unix/yogabba:/tmp/.ICE-unix/598
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SHELL_SESSION_ID=cc45f236c9ad4045985c2b468ff16077
SHLVL=1
TERM=xterm-256color
USER=stephen
WINDOWID=4194311
XAUTHORITY=/home/stephen/.Xauthority
XCURSOR_SIZE=48
XCURSOR_THEME=Breeze_Snow
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_VTNR=1
_=/usr/bin/env
CLICOLOR=1
EDITOR=vi
LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8

Expected Output

The nim binary shouldn't create these empty folders all over the disk. This didn't seem to happen in the previous release and started happening only with 1.4.0.

[dawkot]

Same here (linux).

[alaviss]

This is weird, how did you install Nim?

[shassard]

Installed via choosenim on linux.
It seems like this is the issue:
dom96/choosenim#235

[dawkot]

Yeah, I just noticed it does the same with 1.2.8 on choosenim, but not with 1.4.0 downloaded manually.

[shassard]

I'll close this issue since it's related to choosenim.