# Graph compile issue
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 12, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173 "2022-11-12T21:57:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ejlongman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ejlongman)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173/1 "2022-11-12T21:57:16Z")
I’m suddenly unable to graph without getting an error. when I try re-compiling GR.
When I run:
```julia
using Pkg; Pkg.build("GR")
```
I get:
```julia
Building GR → `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/c98aea696662d09e215ef7cda5296024a9646c75/build.log`
Precompiling project...
✓ GR
✗ Plots
1 dependency successfully precompiled in 11 seconds (236 already precompiled, 1 skipped during auto due to previous errors)
1 dependency errored. To see a full report either run `import Pkg; Pkg.precompile()` or load the package
```
Running the command for a full report:
```julia
Precompiling project...
✗ Plots
Output exceeds the size limit. Open the full output data in a text editor
The following 2 direct dependencies failed to precompile:
StatsPlots [f3b207a7-027a-5e70-b257-86293d7955fd]
Failed to precompile StatsPlots [f3b207a7-027a-5e70-b257-86293d7955fd] to /Users/ellen/.julia/compiled/v1.7/StatsPlots/jl_QIJK9v.
┌ Warning: GR attempted to rebuild but failed due to ErrorException("Evaluation into the closed module `GR` breaks incremental compilation because the side effects will not be permanent. This is likely due to some other module mutating `GR` with `eval` during precompilation - don't do this."). Setting ENV["JULIA_GR_REBUILD"] = false.
└ @ GR ~/.julia/packages/GR/xhzFJ/src/GR.jl:378
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: GR was not built correctly and could not be automatically rebuilt.
get(ENV, "JULIA_GR_REBUILD", "true") == false
/Users/ellen/.julia/packages/GR/xhzFJ/src/../deps/gr is not a directory.
GR_jll could not be loaded.
Run the following commands:
ENV["GRDIR"] = ""
using Pkg; Pkg.build("GR")
Stacktrace:
[1] error(s::String)
@ Base ./error.jl:33
[2] __init__ ()
@ GR ~/.julia/packages/GR/xhzFJ/src/GR.jl:383
[3] _include_from_serialized(path::String, depmods::Vector{Any})
@ Base ./loading.jl:768
[4] _require_search_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, sourcepath::String)
...
@ In[9]:1
[7] eval
@ ./boot.jl:373 [inlined]
[8] include_string(mapexpr::typeof(REPL.softscope), mod::Module, code::String, filename::String)
@ Base ./loading.jl:1196
```
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173/2 "2022-11-12T22:56:50Z")
Could you run this and report the output?
```julia
using InteractiveUtils
versioninfo()
using Pkg
pkg"status -m"
get(ENV, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "not set")
get(ENV, "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH", "not set")
```
Already my sense is that the version of GR you are using is a bit old.
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173/3 "2022-11-12T23:03:24Z")
Also try:
1. The first troubleshooting step is to force GR to rebuild. This should reset GR to using GR\_jll.
2. The second step is try binaries from GR tarballs which are provided directly by the GR developers as self-contained distributions for selected platforms - independent of the programming language
3. There might be an issue with GR\_jll. Check if it can be loaded.
This is extracted from [GR.jl/README.md at v0.67.0 · jheinen/GR.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl/blob/v0.67.0/README.md#basic-troubleshooting)
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### Author:  [@ejlongman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ejlongman)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graph-compile-issue/90173/4 "2022-11-13T00:08:23Z")
running this fixed it!