[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#755576: Bug#755576: Bug#755576: cannot open /etc/julia/juliarc.jl on startup (bug in abspath)

[Viral Shah]

Good point. pcre 8.31 is a hard requirement as of now. We should probably file the issue upstream, so that we can use a newer version of pcre.

-viral



On 22-Jul-2014, at 3:14 pm, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + confirmed
> Control: severity -1 grave
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Le mardi 22 juillet 2014 à 09:11 +0200, Eric Marsden a écrit :
>> Package: julia
>> Version: 0.2.1+dfsg-3
>> Severity: serious
>> 
>> When invoking julia, it prints the error message below and exits.
>> 
>>   ERROR: could not open file /tmp//tmp//etc/julia/juliarc.jl
>>     in include at boot.jl:238
>> 
>> "julia -f" starts up OK.
>> 
>> Experimenting a little, it seems that the bug is in the abspath
>> function, which is called from load_juliarc in client.jl.
>> 
>>    julia> abspath("/foo")
>>    "/tmp//foo"
>> 
>> where "/tmp" is the CWD.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this. I can confirm the bug. It is triggered by the
> upgrade of libpcre3, from version 1:8.31-5 to 1:8.35-2. Downgrading to
> libpcre3 1:8.31-5 solves the issue.
> 
> At this stage, I don't know if this is an ABI break in libpcre3 (#755439
> looks like a possible candidate), or if it is related to the way Julia
> internally stores regular expressions in its LLVM bytecode image
> (sys.ji).
> 
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