I'm trying to setup the leiningen repo in my dotfiles, which involves adding a specific verison of the repo to my dotfiles repo and then using a script to link the /bin/lein script that one would normally download and run in order to install leiningen, or at least this is how I thought it would work.
What's actually happening is that when I do this setup and then run lein, I get the following message:
Leiningen is missing its dependencies.
Please run "lein bootstrap" in the leiningen-core/ directory
with a stable release of Leiningen. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
I don't understand why I'd be getting this message since I am in fact linking a version of lein from a repo checked out on the stable branch.
Does anyone what might be going on here and how I could achieve my goal?
If you run bin/lein from inside of a source checkout of the repository, it assumes you are developing leiningen, in which case you must perform additional bootstrapping actions. If you want to just use lein without developing it, you don't need a whole repository, just the bin/lein script from stable. Cloning the repository and trying to use bin/lein in-place without any bootstrapping is not a supported usage mode.
If for some reason you want the full clone but don't want to build it yourself, you must copy the bin/lein script elsewhere, not link to it.