A compiler error started to appear after 1.0.29

[rimbi]

error[E0599]: no function or associated item named `from_str` found for struct `proc_macro::Literal` in the current scope
   --> /root/.cargo/registry/src/github.spider-man.dpdns.org-1ecc6299db9ec823/proc-macro2-1.0.29/src/wrapper.rs:926:38
    |
926 |                 proc_macro::Literal::from_str(repr)
    |                                      ^^^^^^^^ function or associated item not found in `proc_macro::Literal`

Compiler version: rustc 1.54.0-nightly (79e50bf77 2021-05-10)

Any idea?

[taiki-e]

I think you need to use the newer nightly toolchain.

[rimbi]

This seems quite reasonable but it causes other compiler errors in other crates. :)

This does not seem to be a compiler version problem to me.

[rimbi]

The workaround is to revert back to the previous version:

cargo update -p proc-macro2 --precise 1.0.28

[smoelius]

FWIW, here is where proc_macro::Literal::from_str is implemented: rust-lang/rust@34585cb

And nightly-2021-05-21 seems to be the earliest toolchain with that commit.

[mikevoronov]

Today and we stumbled on this problem. I'm just wondering why not increase a minor crate version?

[dtolnay]

This crate does not support old nightly compilers. In general it is not reasonable to expect crates to support arbitrary old nightly compilers.

[houqp]

@dtolnay I am getting this error with rust 1.54 too, is this expected? shouldn't it work for version >= 1.53?

[vasilakisfil]

Same here, running rustc 1.54.0 (a178d0322 2021-07-26) and whichever version I am trying (1.0.27, 1.0.28 or 1.0.29) I get the same error.