# Install from source: no such instruction

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620 "2024-12-09T13:49:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![VictorEijkhout](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/victoreijkhout/32/50666_2.png) [@VictorEijkhout](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VictorEijkhout)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/1 "2024-12-09T13:49:39Z")

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I’m installing from source on an Intel Skylake. Installation ends/fails on:

```julia
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/AUTHORS /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/BUGS /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/COPYING /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/COPYING.LESSER /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/NEWS /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/mpfr-4.2.1/TODO '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr-staging/mpfr-4.2.1/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr/share/doc/mpfr/.'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr-staging/mpfr-4.2.1/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr/lib/pkgconfig'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 mpfr.pc '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr-staging/mpfr-4.2.1/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-intel24.0/usr/lib/pkgconfig'
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 477 100 477 0 0 991 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 991
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 260 100 260 0 0 1656 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1645
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 188k 0 188k 0 0 339k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 339k
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 327 100 327 0 0 2018 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2018
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 6564k 0 6564k 0 0 5516k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 12.5M
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:495: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:1043: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:11153: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:11805: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:12167: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rdx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:12786: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rcx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:13539: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rdx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:14486: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rax),%xmm0'
{standard input}:15122: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rax),%xmm0'

```

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/2 "2024-12-10T08:25:30Z")

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What version of binutils are you using? Sounds like it may be too old? Also, this is during compilation of MPFR (one of Julia dependencies), so you may want to direct your question to its developers.

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**Author:** ![VictorEijkhout](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/victoreijkhout/32/50666_2.png) [@VictorEijkhout](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VictorEijkhout)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/3 "2024-12-10T13:48:50Z")

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How do I find the version of binutils? What is the minimum you accept?  
Can I install MPFR separately and link it in? What are the options for that?

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/4 "2024-12-10T13:56:29Z")

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> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> How do I find the version of binutils?

Something like `as --version` or `ld --version`.

> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> What is the minimum you accept?

That’s again a question for MPFR for this specific problem.

> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> Can I install MPFR separately and link it in? What are the options for that?

Pass `USE_SYSTEM_MPFR=1` to `make`. I’m assuming you’re already doing something like `USE_BINARYBUILDER=0` or `USE_BINARYBUILDER_MPFR=0`, since you’re compiling MPFR in the first place. Note that we do expect a minimum version for MPFR (if anything that’s the version that has been tested), for example for Julia v1.11 that’s MPFR v4.2.1:

> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.11.0/stdlib/MPFR_jll/Project.toml#L3>

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**Author:** ![VictorEijkhout](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/victoreijkhout/32/50666_2.png) [@VictorEijkhout](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VictorEijkhout)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/5 "2024-12-10T15:50:54Z")

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Interesting. With my own MPFR 4.2.1 it builds just fine.

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/6 "2024-12-10T18:01:15Z")

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Anyway. After an hour of compilation it bombs on 7zip it looks like.

```julia
-- Installing: /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-gcc13.2/usr-staging/libgit2-a418d9d4ab87bae16b87d8f37143a4687ae0e4b2/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-gcc13.2/usr/include/git2.h
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 439 100 439 0 0 1134 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1131
100 221k 100 221k 0 0 267k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 267k
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 477 100 477 0 0 813 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 812
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 260 100 260 0 0 1468 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1468
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 188k 0 188k 0 0 345k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 81.6M
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 327 100 327 0 0 2043 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2043
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 6564k 0 6564k 0 0 4917k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 20.0M
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:495: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:1043: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:11153: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:11805: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rsi),%xmm0'
{standard input}:12167: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rdx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:12786: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rcx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:13539: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rdx),%xmm0'
{standard input}:14486: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rax),%xmm0'
{standard input}:15122: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw (%rax),%xmm0'
make[4]: *** [makefile.list:469: lz4.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [makefile:17: 7za] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/p7zip.mk:20: p7zip-17.04/build-compiled] Error 2

```

that was that software with major security holes, right? Have they been patched?

Anyway, can I skip 7zip or install my own, in which latter case what flags?

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/7 "2024-12-10T18:08:11Z")

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> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> that was that software with major security holes, right? Have they been patched?

We use [GitHub - p7zip-project/p7zip: A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).](https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip) (as [homebrew also does](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/p7zip#default)), which is a patched version of [p7zip download | SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/), which is probably what you’re thinking of.

> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> Anyway, can I skip 7zip or install my own, in which latter case what flags?

`USE_SYSTEM_P7ZIP=1`

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/8 "2024-12-12T17:27:17Z")

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But I’m still not making it through a whole build.

```julia
    CC /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/build-git-stampede3-gcc13.2/src/runtime_intrinsics.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:7548: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw %xmm0,%edx'
{standard input}:7833: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw %eax,%xmm0'
{standard input}:8046: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw %eax,%xmm0'
{standard input}:8218: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw %eax,%xmm0'
{standard input}:8229: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw .LC9(%rip),%xmm0'
{standard input}:8333: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw %eax,%xmm0'
{standard input}:8346: Error: no such instruction: `vmovw .LC9(%rip),%xmm0'
make[2]: *** [/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/src/Makefile:237: runtime_intrinsics.o] Error 1

```

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/9 "2024-12-12T17:55:00Z")

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can you show `uname -a`? The only thing I can think of is that your CPU is weird and doesn’t support AVX instructions somehow…

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/10 "2024-12-12T19:33:36Z")

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```julia
[staff ~:4] uname -a
Linux staff.stampede3.tacc.utexas.edu 5.14.0-362.24.1.el9_3.0.1.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 4 22:31:43 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

```

This is the login node for a cluster. When I install on a compute node it does seem to get beyond this point.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/11 "2024-12-12T20:25:27Z")

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Can you also give `lscpu`?

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/12 "2024-12-12T22:43:21Z")

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> **[GitHub - JuliaBinaryWrappers/p7zip\_jll.jl](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/p7zip_jll.jl)**
>
> Contribute to JuliaBinaryWrappers/p7zip\_jll.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

is at version “17.5.0+1” from Sept (not marked as security update, and LTS has a year old version), but I do see for 7-zip, though not p7zip: [7-Zip - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip)

> Versions prior to 23.0 also contained an [arbitrary code execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution) vulnerability, fixed on 7 May 2023. A year later, a severe [Remote code execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_code_execution) vulnerability was found on versions prior to 24.07 ([CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_(identifier))-[2024-11477](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11477)), it was fixed on 20 November 2024.

You might have XZ vulnerability in mind. [XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor)

> a malicious [backdoor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)) was introduced to the Linux build of the [xz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils) utility within the [liblzma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liblzma) library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name “Jia Tan”

What matters is what Julia decoding methods Julia supports, XZ/liblzma or whatever. What does Julia need and use for itself? It likely should disable everything else if not done already.

> [@giordano](#):
>
> USE\_SYSTEM\_P7ZIP=1

Good advice for those building. For those using precompiled Julia, I think the compression method can actually be chosen at runtime, I’m not sure if it applies in all cases, but I think I saw something like that.

> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> I’m installing from source on an Intel Skylake.

Nothing wrong with doing that if you need to (or do not trust Julia builds…) but why? Do you need to, assuming Julia’s build is secure?

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/13 "2024-12-13T00:26:17Z")

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A few years ago a user reported that the precompiled binary was several times slower than a build from source. And at the time the build from source was a press of the button. For some reason this time it isn’t.

Another reason for wanting to build it from source is that want to integrate it with my custom MPI. But that’s the next step.

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/14 "2024-12-13T00:38:28Z")

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> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> A few years ago a user reported that the precompiled binary was several times slower than a build from source

That’s a bit surprising. Julia is a compiler, compiling it from source instead of using pre-built binaries won’t change the code it generates. Also, official binaries use function multiversioning for different ISAs, to provide efficient cached code for different CPUs (a from-source build by default would target only the native host CPU).

Compiling Julia from source can affect the performance of the runtime (e.g. garbage collector), but that’s shouldn’t in principle be a bottleneck, or if it is that’s a problem on its own: ideally you’d like an application to spend most of its time in doing number crunching.

> [@VictorEijkhout](#):
>
> Another reason for wanting to build it from source is that want to integrate it with my custom MPI.

I don’t see the way how you compile Julia affects in any way the integration with MPI.

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/15 "2024-12-13T04:08:16Z")

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> [@Palli](#):
>
> What matters is what Julia decoding methods Julia supports, XZ/liblzma or whatever. What does Julia need and use for itself? It likely should disable everything else if not done already.

[replace 7z with gzip · Issue #3824 · JuliaLang/Pkg.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/3824)

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-from-source-no-such-instruction/123620/16 "2024-12-13T08:37:02Z")

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```julia
Making install in script
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr-staging/nghttp2-1.59.0/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr/share/nghttp2'
 /usr/bin/install -c /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/nghttp2-1.59.0/script/fetch-ocsp-response '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr-staging/nghttp2-1.59.0/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr/share/nghttp2'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr-staging/nghttp2-1.59.0/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr/share/doc/nghttp2'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/srccache/nghttp2-1.59.0/README.rst '/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr-staging/nghttp2-1.59.0/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/usr/share/doc/nghttp2'
patching file lib/md4.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 28.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/md4.c.rej
make[3]: *** [/work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/deps/curl.mk:62: scratch/curl-8.6.0/source-extracted/curl-memdup.patch-applied] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:79: julia-deps] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:66: /work2/00434/eijkhout/stampede3/julia/julia-git/doc/_build/html/en/index.html] Error 2

```

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