Julia on Mac OS X 10.9

[Dahua Lin]

Have anyone tried to compile & run Julia on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), the new version that apple just released?

I am wondering whether upgrade to 10.9 would break Julia.

- Dahua

[John Myles White]

I'll be installing 10.9 in about an hour and can report back.

-- John

[Stefan Karpinski]

I just upgraded and will let you know how it goes...

[Stefan Karpinski]

Works fine to do `make cleanall testall` on 10.9; I'm also trying to build a fresh install on 10.9 to see if that works.

[Keno Fischer]

No, there's a bunch of problems with 10.9, chief among them that they switched the default C++ standard library. Currently working on it.

[Ben Ward]

The build fails with me on my 15' Macbook Pro, I have home-brew gfortran and Xcode with the command line stuff. This is a totally new install of Julia. I have julia already built on another 13' book that I'll check after Mavericks is done installing on that - see if it still builds.

Best,

Ben.

Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)

Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0

Thread model: posix

clang: error: invalid argument '-compatibility_version 6' only allowed with '-dynamiclib'

make[4]: *** [libreadline.6.2.dylib] Error 1

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: can't open file: /Users/axolotlfan9250/julia/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib (No such file or directory)

make[2]: *** [/Users/axolotlfan9250/julia/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib] Error 1

make[1]: *** [julia-release] Error 2

make: *** [release] Error 2

[Keno Fischer]

Here's my WIP on 10.9:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/kf/osx109

Currently failing on OpenBlas with:

ld: library not found for -lcrt1.o

[Keno Fischer]

It seems like gfortran is currently broken on 10.9

[Jameson Nash]

MacPorts recommends reinstalling everything after a major OS cycle, because it sometimes breaks various dependencies. It doesn't look like Homebrew has made this recommendation anywhere, but it is generally still good advice.

[Stefan Karpinski]

Yeah, install from scratch fails:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: file: libosxunwind.a(Unwind-sjlj.c.o) has no symbols

ld: library not found for -ldylib1.10.5.o

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[3]: *** [libopenlibm-extras.dylib] Error 1

make[2]: *** [openlibm/libopenlibm-extras.dylib] Error 2

make[1]: *** [julia-release] Error 2

make: *** [release] Error 2

Looks like I'll be switching to brew since I'd need to reinstall all of MacPorts anyway.

[Keno Fischer]

I was able to successfully compile everything (see my kf/osx109 branch), but the tests still fail.

[Elliot Saba]

Once my new Macbook ships (I was jealous of Keno's beauty) I'll start work on any patches we need for the binary distribution.

-E

[Stefan Karpinski]

Nice work, Keno. I guess we should really make sure that 0.2 final supports OS X 10.9.

[Dahua Lin]

Thanks for all the information.

Looks like I will have to refrain from upgrading to 10.9 for a while until these are sorted out, as I have been using Julia in several critical research projects.

- Dahua

[Jutho]

Any news on this. I was planning to install Mavericks tonight, clean install, reinstalling everything from scratch. Will I be able to get Julia to work?

Jutho

[Avik Sengupta]

Discussion is happening on the pull request. You may want to try the branch.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4614