I actually also tried to compile it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
release 6.3 (Santiago), but the error message is the same as below. Do you
have any idea?
$make
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
CC src/libuv_la-fs-poll.lo
In file included from ./include/uv.h:64,
from src/fs-poll.c:22:
./include/uv-unix.h:132: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__' before 'uv_rwlock_t'
./include/uv-unix.h:149: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__' before 'uv_barrier_t'
In file included from src/fs-poll.c:22:
./include/uv.h:1954: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1955: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1956: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1957: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1958: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1959: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1960: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1961: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1997: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1998: error: expected ')' before '*' token
./include/uv.h:1999: error: expected ')' before '*' token
make[4]: *** [src/libuv_la-fs-poll.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [libuv/.libs/libuv.a] Error 2
make[1]: *** [julia-release] Error 2
make: *** [release] Error 2
On Monday, February 17, 2014 7:23:54 PM UTC+8, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> I'll caution you that even if you get it working on that machine, you may
> encounter further problems once you start trying it out. Even the packages
> shipped with CentOS 6.4---similar to RH 6.4, which is two years newer than
> 5.6---are on the verge of being too old to be useful. (The version of git
> shipped with 6.4, for example, has already caused some trouble; there's no
> Gtk3 on 6.4, and the version of Gtk2 shipped with 6.4 doesn't currently
> work
> with the Gtk package for reasons I haven't yet tracked down, etc.) I can
> imagine that a lot of the C libraries that are wrapped in Julia's packages
> simply won't work on your machine.
>
> This is mostly a RH/CentOS problem, as the packages shipped with Ubuntu
> 12.04
> (approximately contemporaneous with RH 6.4) are fine.
>
> I suspect you'll be a lot less frustrated if you just give up now and find
> a
> different machine to run Julia on. Julia is a new language, and running
> new
> (and fast-moving) software on old platforms rarely works to your
> satisfaction.
>
> --Tim
>
> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 08:03:16 PM [email protected]
> <javascript:>wrote:
> > It's really, really frustrate for me to compile Julia in our RedHat
> server.
> > Anyone who can share me a binary Julia compiled in Red Hat system? Many
> > thanks!
> > My server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga).
>
