GR build problems: "installation is incomplete"

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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!

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

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!

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43

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

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44

Awesome! Thank you!

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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.

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