Looks like the compiler is choking on the libuv header, which is weird.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] 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). >> >
