GR build problems: "installation is incomplete"

compleat · April 8, 2021, 12:31pm

Thanks for your work on this. Is it possible to include the suggestion above about the error message - that in the case of the ‘incomplete build’ issue (which gave rise to this thread) the error message would include the suggestion to set GRDIR to “”

Thanks!

mkitti · April 8, 2021, 1:47pm

If what I did was successful, GR.jl should just do that automatically for you:

github.com

jheinen/GR.jl/blob/master/src/GR.jl#L304


            break
        end
    end
end
if grdir == None
    grdir = joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "..", "deps", "gr")
    if !isdir(grdir)
        if attempt_to_rebuild[]
            attempt_to_rebuild[] = false # Avoid infinite loop
            println("Your GR installation is incomplete. Rerunning build step for GR package.")
            delete!(ENV, "GRDIR")
            if !depsfile_succeeded[]
                # If depsfile failed, then GR_jll failed.
                # Switch to GR on next build.
                ENV["JULIA_GR_PROVIDER"] = "GR"
                @info "Switching provider to GR due to error in depsfile" depsfile
            end
            @eval GR begin
                import Pkg
                Pkg.build("GR")
                include(depsfile)

I can simulate the problem by doing using GR; rm(GR.depsfile) and then starting a new Julia session:

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

julia>  @time begin
                  using GR
                  ENV["GKSWSTYPE"] = 41
                  x = [0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0]; y = [0.3, 0.5, 0.4, 0.2, 0.6, 0.7]
                  GR.polyline(x,y)
                  GR.axes(0.2, 0.2, 0, 0, 1, 1, -0.01)
                  GR.updatews()
              end
[ Info: Precompiling GR [28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71]
Your GR installation is incomplete. Rerunning build step for GR package.
    Building GR → `C:\Users\kittisopikulm\.julia\scratchspaces\44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f\82a03d9c331d181bf33c99c9af04202cc4533d48\build.log`
Precompiling project...
  Progress [========================================>]  3/3
  ? GRUtils
  ? Plots
1 dependency successfully precompiled in 12 seconds (198 already precompiled)
2 dependencies failed but may be precompilable after restarting julia
[ Info: GR was successfully rebuilt
 16.719066 seconds (10.48 M allocations: 641.204 MiB, 1.10% gc time, 1.57% compilation time)

As you can see we encounter the “incomplete build” issue here, but GR.jl rebuilds itself automatically and even still makes the plot for you!

mkitti · April 8, 2021, 1:47pm

If it still cannot recover, then it indeed does provide your suggestion:

github.com

jheinen/GR.jl/blob/master/src/GR.jl#L320-L329


error("""
GR was not built correctly and could not be automatically rebuilt.
$grdir could not be found.
GR_jll could not be loaded.

Run the following commands:

ENV["GRDIR"] = ""
using Pkg; Pkg.build("GR")
""")

compleat · April 8, 2021, 1:47pm

Awesome! Thank you!

jjstickel · April 13, 2021, 5:26pm

To the OP, I feel your pain. FWIW, I just ran into a problem caused by the intersection of GR, Plots, and PyPlot (GR issue 392). After hours of troubleshooting, I discovered that the most recent GR version, 0.57.3, was picking up multiple Qt libraries on my system. Restricting the version to 0.55.0 has resolved it for me. Maybe not directly related to the direct issue discussed here, but it speaks to the larger problems of the Julia packaging ecosystem. Hopefully it continues to improve.