Ok, I think I found what actually was happening.
If I have a library already on the system path Pkg skips the building step.
This is fine but the message it gives is kind of confusing. It outputs the
following info which made me believe it was building something from the
source but in fact it even didn't bother to download files from the
repository:
julia> Pkg.add("ZMQ")
INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from
git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from
git://github.com/loladiro/URIParser.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of ZMQ from git://github.com/JuliaLang/ZMQ.jl.git
INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.2.12
INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2
INFO: Installing ZMQ v0.1.9
INFO: Building ZMQ
INFO: Package database updated
julia>
Removing the default OS libzmq files from /usr/lib fixed the problem.
What would be really nice to have as a debug option is to be able to list
all install packages pointing to the locations of their native library
paths.
At the moment when I do: Pkg.dir("ZMQ") it returns:
"/home/kuba/.julia/ZMQ" which is incorrect in terms of dependencies it
refers to.
Cheers,
kuba
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 3:27:47 PM UTC-7, Iain Dunning wrote:
>
> Binary dependencies are handled on a package-by-package basis, not by the
> Pkg.* functions themselves.
>
> What happens if you run Pkg.build("ZMQ")?
>
> On Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:20:23 PM UTC-4, Kuba Roth wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>> I've run into some problems with package manager in the
>> recent(yesterday) build. It looks like the dependencies are no longer
>> downloaded and build automatically as it used to be. I double checked that
>> with the build from April 1st. and it indeed behaves differently. Running
>> Pkg.add("ZMQ") does not download the source from the repository at the
>> moment.
>> I'm wondering if this is now a default behaviour - if the library is
>> alread installed on the system (as it is in m case in /usr/lib), Julia just
>> skips it. But it is not clear when this change was introduced and why Pkg
>> no longer downloads dependencies itself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kuba
>>
>
