Pkg.update() build errors for multiple packages after update to Julia v0.6

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MacOS 10.12.5; I installed the Julia v0.6 binary, ran Pkg.update(), copied the REQUIRE file from ~/.julia/v0.5 to /v0.6, ran Pkg.update() again, and got multiple load errors, culminating in a summary:
WARNING: Rmath, DecFP, NLopt, PyCall, Tk, OSXNotifier, ZMQ, HDF5, IJulia, MbedTLS, Cairo, HttpParser, Homebrew, Nettle and Blosc had build errors.

  • packages with build errors remain installed in /Users/henryolders/.julia/v0.6
  • build the package(s) and all dependencies with Pkg.build("Rmath", "DecFP", "NLopt", "PyCall", "Tk", "OSXNotifier", "ZMQ", "HDF5", "IJulia", "MbedTLS", "Cairo", "HttpParser", "Homebrew", "Nettle", "Blosc")
  • build a single package by running its deps/build.jl script

Should I just remove these packages? Thanks for any help!

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I think you should just copy the REQUIRE file from 0.5 folder. I imagine copying all the 0.5 files and folder (most of which will probably not be compatible) will cause a lot of problems and then fire up the repl and do a Pkg.update

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That’s what I did - copied just the REQUIRE file. Sorry if that was unclear!

Henry

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Can you figure out what the first package with build errors was, and can you paste the build output here? It’s possible that one broken package caused a cascade of build issues.

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Unfortunately, I don’t think I can. I reverted to 0.5.2 to test something, and now back to 0.6, Pkg.update() says there are no packages to install, update, or remove. I don’t know if the bash window was saved when quitting terminal. However, I suspect that the build errors occurred in the order provided in the summary, ie Rmath, DecFP, NLopt, etc.

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I had similar issues and tracked it down to an issue with FunctionalDataUtils.jl (https://github.com/rened/FunctionalDataUtils.jl/issues/3) requiring an old version of SHA.jl that doesn’t work on 0.6, breaking BinDeps.jl and all downstream packages.
Pkg.checkout("FunctionalDataUtils") solved it for me.