`install` eats `kerl` failure message

[jvantuyl]

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I somehow got myself into a situation where an installation was listed in ~/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/otp-installations but was not actually installed. I couldn't tell you how I got it that way. Prior to this whole exercise, I hadn't even looked in ~/.asdf before.

Regardless, when in this situation, kerl was succeeding to build but failing to install. Since the erlang plugin suppresses all output, I was seeing this:

KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-jit" KERL_BUILD_DOCS=yes asdf install erlang 25.2
asdf_25.2 is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation
The asdf_25.2 build has been deleted
Extracting source code
Building Erlang/OTP 25.2 (asdf_25.2), please wait...
APPLICATIONS DISABLED (See: /Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_25.2/otp_build_25.2.log)
 * jinterface     : No Java compiler found
 * odbc           : ODBC library - link check failed

APPLICATIONS INFORMATION (See: /Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_25.2/otp_build_25.2.log)
 * wx             : Can not link wx program are all developer packages installed?

Building docs...
Erlang/OTP 25.2 (asdf_25.2) has been successfully built

That looks successful, right? However, my prompt tells me when something returns a failure and it was definitely exiting with an error code.

When I commented out the >/dev/null 2>&1 from line 32 of bin/install (here), I saw that it was failing with the message:

ERROR: Installation (asdf_25.2) already registered for this location (/Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdf/installs/erlang/25.2)

This was a pretty easy fix once I knew that and found the otp-installations file. But it was pretty confusing up to this point, since it looks successful.

Is there any way we can either not eat that error or at least display a better error message if it fails?

Here's the output of asdf info, in case it helps:

OS:
Darwin ip-10-45-66-120.us-west-2.compute.internal 23.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.0.0: Fri Sep 15 14:43:05 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.1.13~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

SHELL:
zsh 5.9 (arm-apple-darwin22.1.0)

BASH VERSION:
5.2.15(1)-release

ASDF VERSION:
v0.13.1-0586b37

ASDF INTERNAL VARIABLES:
ASDF_DEFAULT_TOOL_VERSIONS_FILENAME=.tool-versions
ASDF_DATA_DIR=/Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdf
ASDF_DIR=/Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdf
ASDF_CONFIG_FILE=/Users/jaysonvantuyl/.asdfrc

ASDF INSTALLED PLUGINS:
elixir                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir.git master a4c42e1
erlang                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang.git master 6744df7
golang                       https://github.com/kennyp/asdf-golang.git master 33b1f6d
terraform                    https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master 197e3ec

[katafrakt]

It's still happening to me.

ASDF INSTALLED PLUGINS:
elixir                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir.git master 1693b35
erlang                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang.git master 963387b
nodejs                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git master c9e5df4
ruby                         https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git master d50fae2

However, I use Fish so maybe that's the reason? The plugin seems generally incompatible with Fish. Everything works on ZSH.