Building latest Julia on Arch Linux gives the following error for me:
LINK usr/bin/julia-basic
LINK usr/bin/julia-readline
/bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol:rl_signal_event_hook
Makefile:81: recipe for target '/home/mike/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys0.bc'failed
make[1]: *** [/home/mike/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys0.bc] Error 127
Makefile:32: recipe for target 'release' failed
make: *** [release] Error 2
This appears to be a problem with bash 4.3. *Downgrading to bash 4.2 fixes
the problem for me.*
It's already been reported on the Arch Linux bug tracker
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39533 in relation to Sage.
Hope this helps anyone else coming across this problem. I'm not sure
whether it may be relevant to other distros as well.