The platforms I have easiest non-VM access to are Windows and 4-year-old Red Hat, and both have a habit of giving me very short, difficult to use backtraces (probably https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3469 ?). My first instinct to deal with this was finding the line where the error occurs or a method I know is being called thanks to @which, and trying to put in println's (or, better, @bp using the Debug package). For the Julia code in base, this doesn't seem to work until I re-run make, which I can't do if I'm using a binary download of Julia.
>From what I've been able to find from searching around Github and mailing lists, this may be related to the building of a "system image," which I can't find much documentation on - I could help write some, but would have to learn how it works first. Is this possible to do from a binary-installed version of Julia? I'm trying to read through the Makefile to make sense of what it's doing. While the Makefile works beautifully, it is a bit confusing (as are all build systems) to figure out which piece of it does what I'm asking about here. Thanks, Tony
