Invalid SDK config file when running daml build

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1

What could be causing the below error when running daml build on linux.
$ daml build --debug

Invalid SDK config file:YAML exception:
Yaml file not found: PROJECT_DIR/daml/sdk/sdk-2.3.2/sdk-config.yaml

The daml sdk is under:
/daml/bin (which is on the path and has a daml symlink to the below)

/daml/sdk/2.3.2

sdk-config.yaml - exists in the above directory but its trying to look for it in the project folder instead,

2

How did you install the SDK? It sounds like you tweaked some paths if it is installed in /daml.

3

Downloaded tar.gz to /daml/sdk, extracted it, ran install.sh it printed to add /daml/bin to path which I did. daml version prints fine. daml build gets the error. daml build is being run from the project directory.

4

Can you share the output of daml exec env? (filtering to variables starting with DAML_ is fine if you don’t wan to share everything)

5 
DAML_HOME=/daml
DAML_CACHE=/root/.cache/daml
DAML_PROJECT=
DAML_SDK=/daml/sdk/2.3.2
DAML_SDK_VERSION=2.3.2
DAML_SDK_VERSION_LATEST=
DAML_ASSISTANT=/daml/bin/daml
DAML_ASSISTANT_VERSION=2.3.2
6

Any specific reason why you’re running this as root and installed daml to /daml? (instead of the default ~/.daml)

7

This is the setting up of a daml build image. The location is arbitrary and can be changed.

8

If you’re talking Docker images, I’d recommend going for something along the lines of this:

FROM ubuntu:kinetic
RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y curl openjdk-11-jre-headless \
 && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
ARG VERSION
# This is needed to get the DNS requests
# from Haskell binaries to succeed.
# Otherwise they fail to even resolve localhost.
RUN echo 'hosts: files dns' > /etc/nsswitch.conf
RUN addgroup --system daml && adduser --system --ingroup daml daml
USER daml
RUN curl https://get.daml.com | sh -s $VERSION \
    && printf "auto-install: false\nupdate-check: never\n" >> /home/daml/.daml/daml-config.yaml

ENV PATH="/home/daml/.daml/bin:${PATH}"
WORKDIR /home/daml
9

I there a version or guidance for if you can’t access the web i.e. from the tar.gz bundle

10

As a non-root user, this seems to work for me:

TEMP=$(mktemp -d)
cd $TEMP
wget https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/releases/download/v2.4.0/daml-sdk-2.4.0-linux.tar.gz
tar xzf daml-sdk-2.4.0-linux.tar.gz
sdk-2.4.0/install.sh
export PATH=$HOME/.daml/bin:$PATH
cd $(mktemp -d)
rm -rf $TEMP
daml new t
cd t
daml build
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