On Sunday, 28 December 2014 05:01:22 UTC, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > I'm somewhat thrilled that the problem here is the inability to conjure a > failing case :) >
I'm not sure. I've had the feeling that OSX has had the worst experience in installing binary dependencies. One example I had is last week: https://github.com/JuliaWeb/GnuTLS.jl/issues/25 . The issue is still open. It may or may not have been fixed with a new Bindeps release. Current status on my OSX Mavericks, Julia 0.3.4 on Pkg.build(Cairo) ==> Summary 🍺 /Users/aviks/.julia/v0.3/Homebrew/deps/usr/Cellar/icu4c/52.1: 239 files, 60M ==> Installing pango dependency: staticfloat/juliadeps/harfbuzz ==> Downloading https://juliabottles.s3.amazonaws.com/harfbuzz-0.9.33.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Users/aviks/Library/Caches/Homebrew.jl/harfbuzz-0.9.33.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz Error: SHA1 mismatch Expected: 3d136380b810141a5d35fda62bdd35b8771f9314 Actual: a97e9fdfaa2dd88f567f82933f9b27384d822f47 Archive: /Users/aviks/Library/Caches/Homebrew.jl/harfbuzz-0.9.33.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above. Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source. Error: /Users/aviks/.julia/v0.3/Homebrew/deps/usr/opt/pkg-config not present or broken Please reinstall pkg-config. Sorry :( ======================================================================[ ERROR: Cairo ]====================================================================== failed process: Process(`/Users/aviks/.julia/v0.3/Homebrew/deps/usr/bin/brew install --force-bottle staticfloat/juliadeps/pango`, ProcessExited(1)) [1] while loading /Users/aviks/.julia/v0.3/Cairo/deps/build.jl, in expression starting on line 144 ============================================================================================================================================================ ======================================================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]====================================================================== WARNING: Cairo had build errors. - packages with build errors remain installed in /Users/aviks/.julia/v0.3 - build the package(s) and all dependencies with `Pkg.build("Cairo")` - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script ============================================================================================================================================================ Note that a couple of weeks ago I was getting a different error in installing Cairo. I must admit that I have NEVER been able to install TK or Cairo packages in Julia without manual intervention. Typically one tends to find a manual workaround, which lasts till the next OS or machine upgrade. Regards - Avik > > > > On Dec 27, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Tim Holy <tim....@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Images has a somewhat overwhelming number of closed issues (and likely, > a few > > still open) regarding problems with ImageMagick. Take your pick :-). > > > > --Tim > > > >> On Sunday, December 28, 2014 03:32:45 AM Leah Hanson wrote: > >> I'm working on a book chapter about using the Julia package manager. > One > >> example I want to include is debugging a broken package install. I'm > >> currently expecting to focus on a problem caused by binary installs, > since > >> that seems to be the mostly likely cause of a Pkg.add failing. > >> > >> However, it's hard for me to conjure one at will. Does anyone here have > any > >> suggestions? > >> > >> It would be helpful if you either (A) have a story about a package > install > >> that broke at first and that you then got working (please say what > happened > >> and how you fixed it) or (B) an idea for how to reliably create a > problem > >> for Pkg.add (which would make it easier for me to get the example > output > >> for the book). > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Leah > > >
