As I understand it, build_sysimg.jl is moderately broken on >= 0.7. See Fix `contrib/build_sysimg.jl` by staticfloat · Pull Request #27629 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub for a proposed fix, but note the last comment:
I think we should just remove
contrib/build_sysimg.jland tell users to usePackageCompiler.jlinstead. All in favor?