FreeBSD GR download link missing

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Hi there,

I’m trying to install the GR plotting library on FreeBSD 12.0 (stable), but the build fails with the message (see below), of which the main complaint is:

Error opening archive: Failed to open 'downloads/gr-0.39.0-FreeBSD-x86_64.tar.gz'

In the GR specific deps directory the option for FreeBSD is missing in the build.jl file.

Is this something that can be easily solved?

Thanks in advance,
Rob.

Building GR → `~/.julia/packages/GR/KGODl/deps/build.log`
┌ Error: Error building `GR`: 
│   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
│                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
│ curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
│   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
│                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
│ curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
│   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
│                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
│ curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
│ tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'downloads/gr-0.39.0-FreeBSD-x86_64.tar.gz'
│ [ Info: Downloading pre-compiled GR 0.39.0 FreeBSD binary
│ [ Info: Using insecure connection
│ [ Info: Cannot download GR run-time
│ ERROR: LoadError: failed process: Process(`tar xzf downloads/gr-0.39.0-FreeBSD-x86_64.tar.gz`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] error(::String, ::Base.Process, ::String, ::Int64, ::String) at ./error.jl:42
│  [2] pipeline_error at ./process.jl:705 [inlined]
│  [3] #run#503(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at ./process.jl:663
│  [4] run(::Cmd) at ./process.jl:661
│  [5] top-level scope at /home/rob/.julia/packages/GR/KGODl/deps/build.jl:118
│  [6] include at ./boot.jl:317 [inlined]
│  [7] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1044
│  [8] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29
│  [9] include(::String) at ./client.jl:392
│  [10] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at /home/rob/.julia/packages/GR/KGODl/deps/build.jl:63
└ @ Pkg.Operations /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/julia/work/julia-1.0.3/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1097
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Hi,
I have same situation.
Here running freebsd 12.1 atom 1.45 from ports.
Everything works well but I have problems
with building Plots
so I’m trying instructions from here:

https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl/issues/268

but there is another problem
when starting (see instructions)
5. make
in freebsd
I have:
[freebsd@hostname ~/Downloads/gr/gr-master]$ make
make: “/usr/home/freebsd/Downloads/gr/gr-master/Makefile” line 56: Missing dependency operator
make: “/usr/home/freebsd/Downloads/gr/gr-master/Makefile” line 69: Need an operator
make: “/usr/home/freebsd/Downloads/gr/gr-master/Makefile” line 84: Need an operator

I hope to solve …

3

Dear Ionnic,

I asked at Github issue no 268 and user ko56 gave the following hints

Building on FreeBSD 12.1 is easy. Here is what I did:

    Get gr-master.zip from https://github.com/sciapp/gr

    cd ~/build
    unzip -q ../Downloads/gr-master.zip

    Edit lib/Preflight:
    a) #!/usr/local/bin/bash
    b) if [ -f /usr/local/bin/python3.7 ]

    Edit Makefile:

GRDIR = /opt/gr
CONFIG = xft=no

UNAME := $(shell uname)

    Edit gr-master/lib/gr3/gr3_internals.h:

#elif defined(linux) || defined(FreeBSD)
/* OpenGL Extension to the X Window System (GLX) on Linux */
#define GR3_USE_GLX
#include "gr3_glx.h"
#elif defined(_WIN32)

    make

    sudo gmake install

    In julia,

    ENV["GRDIR"] = "/opt/gr"
    ] add GR

I was very pleased to receive this info from ko56, but I have to admit that since I moved to use PGFPlotsX.jl exclusively I didn’t investigate any further.

If this works please report back so we can close this thread as solved

Rob.