Distributions precompilation error

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I wonder if anyone can suggest what I can do about this error. This is on a fresh install of 0.7, as far as I know. (This is on an HPC system and they upgraded at my request so I didn’t do it myself.)

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julia> using Distributions
[ Info: Precompiling Distributions [31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f]
/usr/bin/julia: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/../lib64/libjulia.so.0.7: undefined symbol: utf8proc_decompose_custom
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile StatsBase [2913bbd2-ae8a-5f71-8c99-4fb6c76f3a91] to /home/hcmg/beanaus/.julia/compiled/v0.7/StatsBase/EZjIG.ji.
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at none:2
in expression starting at /home/hcmg/beanaus/.julia/packages/Distributions/y4rh9/src/Distributions.jl:3
ERROR: Failed to precompile Distributions [31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f] to /home/hcmg/beanaus/.julia/compiled/v0.7/Distributions/xILW0.ji.



julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0
Commit a4cb80f3ed (2018-08-08 06:46 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-redhat-linux)
  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)
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Before anyone spends any time looking into this, the problem has been solved. Building from source did not work but downloading the binaries directly did work. (That is, fixing this required a re-installation of Julia.) If anyone runs into a similar problem on RHEL 7 this solution worked for me.

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Yeah, BinaryBuilder does not currently produce binaries compatible with some older Linux distributions. That’ll be fixed very shortly at which point the source build should work also.

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