highlight error, cannot open filetypes.conf: No such file or directory

There is an issue using "highlight"

This unexpected error is reproduced easily with the command below: "cannot open filetypes.conf"

```

$ echo "(highlight (package bug))" | highlight -O xterm256 --syntax lisp

cannot open filetypes.conf: No such file or directory

(highlight (package bug))

```

Creating `~/.highlight/filetypes.conf` did not resolve the error.

Setting "HIGHLIGHT_DATADIR=$HOME/.config/highlight/" did not resolve the error.

Any advice is welcome. Thank you :)

Chris

Sergey,

I believe you intended a related message for the debbugs service, but only sent the message to my mail address. I am unsure and want to avoid showing impoliteness, I rephrased your message a bit below. Thank you,

Chris

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the highlight error goes away after copying the conf file this way

```

cp $(guix build highlight)/etc/highlight/filetypes.conf ~/.highlight/

```

strace shows that the conf is searched in wrong place:

but it is installed to

/gnu/store/...-highlight-.../etc/highlight/highlight.conf

the package recipe has to be fixed

The following workaround can be used,

```

HLDIRS=$(guix build highlight); # returns two directories

HLDIR="${HLDIRS##*[[:space:]]}"; # returns the second dir, after whitespace

DATADIR="$HLDIR/etc/highlight/";

echo "(highlight (package bug))" | highlight --data-dir=$DATADIR -O xterm256 --syntax lisp

```

Based on my understanding, the current package definition is correct. Possibly a patch like this could resolve the issue the current package definition seems correct.

```

Below changes at the highlight package resolve the issue here but may adversely affect "highlight-gui" functionality. Will wait for https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70047before trying to proceed,

```diff

- #:make-flags #~(let ((confdir (string-append %output

- "/share/highlight/config/")))

- (list (string-append "PREFIX=" %output)

- (string-append "HL_CONFIG_DIR=" confdir)

- (string-append "conf_dir=" confdir)))

+ #:make-flags #~(list (string-append "PREFIX=" %output)

+ (string-append "HL_CONFIG_DIR=" %output "/etc/")

+ (string-append "conf_dir=" %output "/etc/"))

```