Stream: beginners

Topic: roc version in parent dir name required?


view this post on Zulip Gabriel Voelkner (Nov 24 2025 at 19:57):

hi there!
just downloaded the lastest roc version roc-linux_x86_64-alpha4-rolling.tar.gz on my beautiful fedora laptop and moved+renamed it to ~/roc(so no version in the parent dir of the roc binary anymore).
now when running the plain roc cmd i get the following warning/disclaimer: roc: /lib64/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by roc) is this wanted/known, or not even at all related to the DIR name?
greetings!

view this post on Zulip Anton (Nov 25 2025 at 10:57):

Hi @Gabriel Voelkner,
This is a fedora specific issue, in my experience it is safe to ignore the warning. I'm not sure but I suspect it may not be a problem with the new compiler (not ready to replace the old compiler yet). Can you try out roc check temp.roc, with the new compiler release and this file:

app [main!] { pf: platform "../basic-cli/main.roc" }

get_name : { name: Str, age: U64 } -> Str
get_name = |person| person.name

main! = |_| {}

view this post on Zulip TeaDrinkingProgrammer (Nov 25 2025 at 11:00):

I also got this warning on the old compiler on Fedora and everything worked just fine.


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