I just tried a fresh nightly install and had similar problems. It seems
windows binary packages are currently broken, see the following issue:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/WinRPM.jl/issues/22
It shouldn't be a big thing to fix.
On Saturday, March 29, 2014 6:41:46 AM UTC+2, Jacques Rioux wrote:
>
> This is my second thread on trying to build a simple web client on Windows
> 7. As I said in my first, I have tried various packages with no success at
> all. I was able to seemingly get HttpCommon to install correctly but I
> can't see what to do with HttpCommon.Request. If I ask for methodswith on
> Request, I get nothing so I am not sure of the point. I have tried to
> install the Requests package tonight one more time and I get the failures
> below.
>
> As I said in my first thread, I am completely agnostic about which package
> I should use, I am not married to any particular choice. I am just trying
> to "get" a web page to start with.
>
> I have even tried to install the GitHub package so I could look how it's
> done, since it presumably would be accessing the GitHub server over http,
> but that gave me the same build errors about ICU, Nettle, and GnuTls
>
> See the errors when installing Requests below.
>
> In [21]: Pkg.rm("Requests")
> INFO: Removing Requests (unregistered)
>
> In [22]: Pkg.add("Requests")
> INFO: Installing Requests v0.0.3
> INFO: Building ICU
> =================================[ ERROR: ICU
> ]=================================
>
> no method readlines(IOStream, Function)
> while loading C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\WinRPM\src\WinRPM.jl, in
> expression starting on line 391
> while loading C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\ICU\deps\build.jl, in
> expression starting on line 22
>
>
> ================================================================================
> INFO: Building HttpParser
> LibraryDependency(libhttp_parser)
> INFO: Building Nettle
> INFO: Updating WinRPM package list
> ===============================[ ERROR: Nettle
> ]================================
>
> sources not defined
> while loading C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\Nettle\deps\build.jl, in
> expression starting on line 35
>
>
> ================================================================================
> INFO: Building GnuTLS
> INFO: Updating WinRPM package list
> ===============================[ ERROR: GnuTLS
> ]================================
>
> sources not defined
> while loading C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\GnuTLS\deps\build.jl, in
> expression starting on line 55
>
>
> ================================================================================
>
> ================================[ BUILD ERRORS
> ]================================
>
> WARNING: ICU, Nettle and GnuTLS had build errors.
>
> - packages with build errors remain installed in
> C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3
> - build a package and all its dependencies with `Pkg.build(pkg)`
> - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script
>
>
> ================================================================================
> INFO: Package database updated
>
> In [23]: Pkg.update()
> INFO: Updating METADATA...
> INFO: INFO: Updating REPL...Updating Terminals...
>
> INFO: INFO: Updating Readline...Updating REPLCompletions...
>
> INFO: Computing changes...
> INFO: No packages to install, update or remove
>
>
