BinDeps.debug("ZMQ") may help? Could use clearer docs.
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:29:51 PM UTC-7, Kuba Roth wrote:
>
> Ok, I think I found what actually was happening.
> If I have a library already on the system path Pkg skips the building
> step. This is fine but the message it gives is kind of confusing. It
> outputs the following info which made me believe it was building something
> from the source but in fact it even didn't bother to download files from
> the repository:
>
> julia> Pkg.add("ZMQ")
> INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from git://
> github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git
> INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://
> github.com/loladiro/URIParser.jl.git
> INFO: Cloning cache of ZMQ from git://github.com/JuliaLang/ZMQ.jl.git
> INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.2.12
> INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2
> INFO: Installing ZMQ v0.1.9
> INFO: Building ZMQ
> INFO: Package database updated
> julia>
>
> Removing the default OS libzmq files from /usr/lib fixed the problem.
>
> What would be really nice to have as a debug option is to be able to list
> all install packages pointing to the locations of their native library
> paths.
> At the moment when I do: Pkg.dir("ZMQ") it returns:
> "/home/kuba/.julia/ZMQ" which is incorrect in terms of dependencies it
> refers to.
>
> Cheers,
> kuba
>
>
> On Sunday, May 11, 2014 3:27:47 PM UTC-7, Iain Dunning wrote:
>>
>> Binary dependencies are handled on a package-by-package basis, not by the
>> Pkg.* functions themselves.
>>
>> What happens if you run Pkg.build("ZMQ")?
>>
>> On Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:20:23 PM UTC-4, Kuba Roth wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> I've run into some problems with package manager in the
>>> recent(yesterday) build. It looks like the dependencies are no longer
>>> downloaded and build automatically as it used to be. I double checked that
>>> with the build from April 1st. and it indeed behaves differently. Running
>>> Pkg.add("ZMQ") does not download the source from the repository at the
>>> moment.
>>> I'm wondering if this is now a default behaviour - if the library is
>>> alread installed on the system (as it is in m case in /usr/lib), Julia just
>>> skips it. But it is not clear when this change was introduced and why Pkg
>>> no longer downloads dependencies itself.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kuba
>>>
>>
