I think I solved at least one case. It helps that I just did a fresh install of mint rosa xfce edition, so it looks more like a machine that hasn't done development. A dev machine would have the missing parts as a matter of course.
The issue is that make does not get all dependencies. I was missing cmake and libssl-dev. To see this, I reran saving the output and searched for "rror". >> make -j 2 2>&1 | tee makejulia.txt Making clean in m4 patching file CMakeLists.txt Hunk #1 succeeded at 274 (offset 57 lines). /bin/sh: 2: cmake: not found make[1]: *** [build/libgit2-785d8c48ea8725691da3c50e7dae8751523d4c30/Makefile] Error 127 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So I install cmake, try again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : -- checking for module 'libcurl' -- package 'libcurl' not found CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message): Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder in the system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (missing: OPENSSL_LIBRARIES OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR) Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSSL.cmake:313 (find_package_handle_standard_args) CMakeLists.txt:277 (FIND_PACKAGE) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! : : OpenBLAS build complete. (BLAS CBLAS LAPACK LAPACKE) OS ... Linux Architecture ... x86_64 BINARY ... 64bit Use 64 bits int (equivalent to "-i8" in Fortran) C compiler ... GCC (command line : gcc -m64) Fortran compiler ... GFORTRAN (command line : gfortran -m64) Library Name ... libopenblas64_p-r0.2.18.a (Multi threaded; Max num-threads is 16) To install the library, you can run "make PREFIX=/path/to/your/installation install". make: *** [julia-deps] Error 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It stops at gfortran, but the problem is actually here: The lines in CMAkeLists.tct:277 are here: IF (NOT AMIGA AND USE_OPENSSL) FIND_PACKAGE(OpenSSL REQUIRED) ENDIF () I check dpkg -s libcurl3 is OK dpkg -s openssl is OK dpkg -s openssl-dev is missing, I install it make now runs to completion.
