# GMT fails to build in Julia 1.11.0-rc3

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmt-fails-to-build-in-julia-1-11-0-rc3/126362>\
**Category:** Package Management\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmt-fails-to-build-in-julia-1-11-0-rc3/126362 "2025-02-26T23:02:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmt-fails-to-build-in-julia-1-11-0-rc3/126362/1 "2025-02-26T23:02:27Z")

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Hi Folks,

I’m using Julia 1.11.0-rc3 on Fedora 41 from JupyterLab. I can’t get the GMT package to build. It worked in March almost a year ago, but I have updated Julia since then. The process looks like this:

julia\> Pkg.build(“GMT”)  
Building GMT → `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/3dd3b53fc9d59d5689c0b5e4ba8ac254218abc79/build.log`  
Precompiling project…  
✗ GMT  
0 dependencies successfully precompiled in 3 seconds. 519 already precompiled.  
1 dependency errored.  
For a report of the errors see `julia> err`. To retry use `pkg> precompile`

julia\> err  
PkgPrecompileError: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

GMT

Failed to precompile GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54] to “/home/jlyle/.julia/compiled/v1.11/GMT/jl\_1hByQk”.  
/home/jlyle/.julia/artifacts/c313bd4f6c64c76b6b6e857e14386b00385c2020/bin/gmt: /lib64/libtiff.so.6: version `LIBTIFF_4.6.1' not found (required by /home/jlyle/.julia/artifacts/94430821ebeeac5f4e438c79b541c0e5408e74de/lib/libgdal.so.36) ERROR: LoadError: failed process: Process(setenv(`/home/jlyle/.julia/artifacts/c313bd4f6c64c76b6b6e857e14386b00385c2020/bin/gmt --version`,[“\_CE\_M=”, “VTE\_VERSION=7802”, “EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano”, "PATH=/home/jlyle/.julia/artifacts/8c83eff7b29912d7bd1e42aef04f7822159494c3/bin:/home/jlyle/.julia/artifacts/f7ee295b548ab3df8b28b6d67cd65b5eeef8dad1/bin:

And runs on for many lines before ending with

“COLORTERM=truecolor”, “HOSTNAME=harry”]), ProcessExited(1)) [1]

Stacktrace:  
[1] pipeline\_error  
@ ./process.jl:598 [inlined]  
[2] (::Base.var"#888#889"{Base.Process})()  
@ Base ./process.jl:356  
[3] iterate(itr::Base.EachLine{Base.PipeEndpoint}, state::Nothing)  
@ Base ./io.jl:1236  
[4] iterate  
@ ./io.jl:1236 [inlined]  
[5] \_collect(cont::UnitRange{Int64}, itr::Base.EachLine{Base.PipeEndpoint}, ::Base.HasEltype, isz::Base.SizeUnknown)  
@ Base ./array.jl:716  
[6] collect  
@ ./array.jl:705 [inlined]  
[7] readlines(s::Cmd; kw::@Kwargs{})  
@ Base ./io.jl:708  
[8] top-level scope  
@ ~/.julia/packages/GMT/UMxJJ/src/GMT.jl:38  
[9] top-level scope  
@ stdin:4  
in expression starting at /home/jlyle/.julia/packages/GMT/UMxJJ/src/GMT.jl:1  
in expression starting at stdin:

I’m guessing that not finding LIBTIFF is the trigger for the error. LIBTIFF is a library for dealing with TIFF images that says it is in alpha but is also version 4.6.x. Trying

LIBTIFF itself seems to be a Linux library and LIBTIFF.jl is just a wrapper to call it. Checking on that.

(julia-1-8-2) [jlyle@harry ~]$ sudo dnf info LIBTIFF  
Updating and loading repositories:  
Repositories loaded.  
Installed packages  
Name : libtiff  
Epoch : 0  
Version : 4.6.0  
Release : 6.fc41  
Architecture : x86\_64  
Installed size : 606.0 KiB  
Source : libtiff-4.6.0-6.fc41.src.rpm

It seems I have the package installed, but I have version 4.6.0 and GMT wants 4.6.1? dnf update reports nothing to do. 4.6.0 seems to be the best I can get

I tried doing the Julia Pkg.add(“Libtiff\_jll”) That tried to update to Libtiff\_jll v4.7.0+0 and then triggered the same error about `LIBTIFF\_4.6.1’ not found.

The LIBTIFF.jl page says to try `Pkg.clone("git@github.com:pglock/LIBTIFF.jl.git")`

That just tells me the clone is not defined in Pkg.

Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?

Ad Astra,

Jack Lyle

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Can you please install Julia following the instructions at [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/)?

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmt-fails-to-build-in-julia-1-11-0-rc3/126362/3 "2025-02-26T23:43:35Z")

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That got me to version 1.11.3 Official [https://julialang.org/](https://julialang.org/) release

Pkg.add(“GMT”)

worked like a charm. That doesn’t get jupyter-lab to see the new kernel. Let’s try building IJulia. Yes, that fixed it.

Can you please tell me WHY it fixed it?

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmt-fails-to-build-in-julia-1-11-0-rc3/126362/4 "2025-02-26T23:51:18Z")

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Not answering on why it failed (though the error messages indicates that it was picking system installed shared libs that where not compatible with others in the julia installation, which is always a mess), but Julia 1.10 gives GMT.jl users a better experience. See [Slower times to TTFX for GMT in 1.11 and even more in nightly](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slower-times-to-ttfx-for-gmt-in-1-11-and-even-more-in-nightly/126350)