Error 404 in installing julia?

[adrianor]

I would like to install an older version of julia in order to do some comparisons with an old program I have. The version I'm trying to install is 1.3.0. For some reason, I get the following error

julia]$ make
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/jivifair/julia2/julia/contrib/normalize_triplet.py", line 113, in <module>
gcc_version = {
KeyError: '1'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 405 100 405 0 0 625 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 626
0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
make[1]: *** [/home/user/julia2/julia/deps/suitesparse.mk:144: /home/user/julia2/julia/deps/srccache/SuiteSparse.v5.4.0-2..tar.gz] Error 22
make: *** [Makefile:60: julia-deps] Error 2

Is there a reason why this should fail? I'm not behind any firewall or have connection problems. Indeed a couple of months back I installed 1.7.0 without problems.

[fredrikekre]

Probably

julia/contrib/normalize_triplet.py

Lines 34 to 40 in 46ce4d7

	gcc_version_mapping = {
	'blank_gcc': "",
	'gcc4': "-gcc4",
	'gcc7': "-gcc7",
	'gcc8': "-gcc8",
	'gcc9': "-gcc8",
	}

doesn't contain your gfortran version -- what is the output of gfortran --version?. I believe this is only needed when using prebuild binaries for the dependencies, so perhaps the easiest is to compile them yourself instead, IIRC you set the Make-variable USE_BINARYBUILDER=0. This will disable all prebuilt ones, probably you can filter this more granularly, I don't think all of them depend on the gfortran version.

As you probably know, Julia 1.3 is not supported anymore, but it is of course unfortunate that it doesn't build.

[adrianor]

Ok so the output is

julia]$ gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (GCC) 12.2.0

About the file you mention I indeed have

gcc_version_mapping = {
'blank_gcc': "",
'gcc4': "-gcc4",
'gcc7': "-gcc7",
'gcc8': "-gcc8",
'gcc9': "-gcc8",
}

[apaz-cli]

@adrianor What version (git hash) of Julia are you building? In particular, does the version you're building include the changes from #47352?

[vtjnash]

He already said v1.3.0.

@adrianor You will probably need to patch that file to deal with gcc > 10 (aka '1') and map it to -gcc8, to attempt to get the right downloads, or set USE_BINARYBUILDER=0 or USE_SYSTEM_XXX=1 to get the dependencies locally

Alternatively, all of our old releases v0.3.1!) are still available on the downloads page (https://julialang.org/downloads/oldreleases/)

[adrianor]

@apaz-cli I'm not sure what is the git hash of Julia, how do I get it?

@vtjnash I guess USE_BINARYBUILDER=0 needs to be added to one of the makefiles or config, which one of them has to go? (Thanks in advance.)

[vtjnash]

Make.user is a good place to add it (create that file)

[adrianor]

Ok, it didn't work the option USE_BINARYBUILDER=0 but I downloaded the version from the linked webpage and it seems to be running fine.