Is 1.7.2 on Intel Mac missing Codesigning?

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Intel Mac, latest OS, got this in a popup

“julia” can’t be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed.

M1 version on Macbook works fine.

2

DId the trick (start with control + click) that worked before. Julia took a long time to start and then I got this

exec '/Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'
┌ Warning: The call to compilecache failed to create a usable precompiled cache file for JSON [682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6]
│   exception = Required dependency Parsers [69de0a69-1ddd-5017-9359-2bf0b02dc9f0] failed to load from a cache file.
└ @ Base loading.jl:1132
┌ Warning: Module JSON with build ID 103410392755 is missing from the cache.
│ This may mean JSON [682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6] does not support precompilation but is imported by a module that does.
└ @ Base loading.jl:1107
┌ Warning: The call to compilecache failed to create a usable precompiled cache file for MbedTLS [739be429-bea8-5141-9913-cc70e7f3736d]
│   exception = Required dependency MbedTLS_jll [c8ffd9c3-330d-5841-b78e-0817d7145fa1] failed to load from a cache file.
└ @ Base loading.jl:1132
┌ Warning: The call to compilecache failed to create a usable precompiled cache file for IJulia [7073ff75-c697-5162-941a-fcdaad2a7d2a]
│   exception = Required dependency ZMQ [c2297ded-f4af-51ae-bb23-16f91089e4e1] failed to load from a cache file.
└ @ Base loading.jl:1132
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.7.2 (2022-02-06)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia>

When I tried again, seemed to work ok. What did the warnings mean?

And… when I tried a couple hours later on a different Mac (same OS, same Intel) everything worked from the start.

4

You can go to System Preferences->Security&Privacy, click “open anyway” and enter your password.
I didn’t have the same issue installing it via homebrew, and it really makes the updating process easier.

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It sounds like the lack of codesigning may have been a transient issue, as were the compilecache warnings? I believe those warnings just mean that some dependency has a broken .ji file — perhaps due to the upgrade — and those will get purged/regenerated automatically as needed.