From b4ff01b5075b018dded72fce2c6c3343d1a76482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:32:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make niminst compile again

---
 tools/niminst/niminst.nim | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/niminst/niminst.nim b/tools/niminst/niminst.nim
index e2cc8cf3a7..84653f86f2 100644
--- a/tools/niminst/niminst.nim
+++ b/tools/niminst/niminst.nim
@@ -483,7 +483,8 @@ proc deduplicateFiles(c: var ConfigData) =
   let build = getOutputDir(c)
   for osA in countup(1, c.oses.len):
     for cpuA in countup(1, c.cpus.len):
-      if c.cfiles[osA][cpuA].isNil: c.cfiles[osA][cpuA] = @[]
+      when not defined(nimNoNilSeqs):
+        if c.cfiles[osA][cpuA].isNil: c.cfiles[osA][cpuA] = @[]
       if c.explicitPlatforms and not c.platforms[osA][cpuA]: continue
       for dup in mitems(c.cfiles[osA][cpuA]):
         let key = $secureHashFile(build / dup)