Usr/share/julia/stdlib is empty when building from source

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I’m trying to build Julia from source using the Intel Math Kernel Library. I’ve done this successfully on Fedora, but I’m hitting a snag when building on Gentoo. Here’s what I’ve done:

  • git clone git://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git

  • cd julia

  • git checkout v1.1.0

create a Make.user file containing:

USE_INTEL_MKL=1
MARCH=native
  • make

This results in:

find: ‘/home/zaen/repos/julia/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.1/*/src’: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lmkl_rt
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lmkl_rt
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/home/zaen/repos/julia/deps/suitesparse.mk:52: /home/zaen/repos/julia/usr/manifest/suitesparse] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:57: julia-deps] Error 2

When I check usr/share/julia/stdlib I can see that it’s empty. On my Fedora installation it’s not. What would cause this?

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This directory is apparently not supposed to contain anything before Julia finishes the first build. Gentoo seems to ignore the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, but adding LDFLAGS="-L/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries/linux/mkl/lib/intel64" to Make.user allowed me to build successfully.