GR build problems: "installation is incomplete"

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It’s being actively developed, and there are moving pieces. The situation today is different that it was two weeks ago. Part of the current situation is the package is transitioning to using BinaryBuilder provided binaries.

We do have a way of version pinning it to make it work as some have described above. pkg> add GR@0.54 or using a Manifest file which let’s you grab everything at exactly the same version.

The gist of the extra information I added is that you then need to do:

julia> ENV["GRDIR"] = ""
""

(@v1.6) pkg> build GR

It’s the first thing that @jheinen tells everyone.

If you’re trying a new version of GR, such as GR v0.57.1, then they key piece of information we need is

julia> GR.gr_provider
"BinaryBuilder"

If the above value is still “GR” rather than “BinaryBuilder”, then it may be necessary to force GR to recompile itself.

For example, rather than deleting the entire .julia, you could focus on the the location of dirname(dirname(pathof(GR))).

Here, I’ve artificially created a situation with the latest GR.

julia> using GR
Your GR installation is incomplete. Rerun build step for GR package.
    Building GR → `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/f74b42150042d11a1d94badf27c6125867c7e9bd/build.log`

julia> GR.gr_provider # This should be "BinaryBuilder" in normal circumstances
"GR"

julia> ENV["GRDIR"]
"/home/mkitti/.julia/packages/GR/f111O/src/../deps/gr"

julia> isfile(ENV["GRDIR"]) # This is trying to point at something that doesn't exist, not good
false

julia> ENV["GRDIR"] = "" # Clear the environmental variable

julia> GR_path = dirname(dirname(pathof(GR))) # Figure out where GR lives
"/home/mkitti/.julia/packages/GR/f111O"

(@v1.6) pkg> rm GR # Remove it from your environment
    Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
  [28b8d3ca] - GR v0.57.1
  No Changes to `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Manifest.toml`

julia> rm(GR_path; force = true, recursive = true) # Remove the GR package files to force recompilation

julia> ENV["GRDIR"] # Double check the environment is clean
""

(@v1.6) pkg> add GR
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
    Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
   Resolving package versions...
   Installed GR ─ v0.57.1
    Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
  [28b8d3ca] + GR v0.57.1
  No Changes to `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Manifest.toml`
    Building GR → `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/f74b42150042d11a1d94badf27c6125867c7e9bd/build.log`
Precompiling project...
  Progress [========================================>]  2/2
  ? Plots
1 dependency successfully precompiled in 12 seconds (119 already precompiled)
1 dependency failed but may be precompilable after restarting julia

julia> exit() # Restart Julia
$ bin/julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.6.0 (2021-03-24)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> using GR

julia> GR.gr_provider # Better
"BinaryBuilder"

julia> x = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]; y = rand(Float64,3) # This works
3-element Vector{Float64}:
 0.1945528819219915
 0.2910514639410986
 0.6935992470239583

julia> plot(x,y)

If you’re not interested in knowing why you need to do that, that’s fine with me.

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