>From ~/.julia/packages/Arpack/cu5By/deps after adding Distributions using upstream's version 1.0.4:
[ Info: Downloading https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/ArpackBuilder/releases/download/v3.5.0-3/Arpack.v3.5.0-3.x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc7.tar.gz to /home/ginggs/.julia/packages/Arpack/cu5By/deps/usr/downloads/Arpack.v3.5.0-3.x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc7.tar.gz... >From the same file using Debian's version 1.0.4+dfsg-1: [ Info: Downloading https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/ArpackBuilder/releases/download/v3.5.0-3/Arpack.v3.5.0-3.x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc8.tar.gz to /home/ginggs/.julia/packages/Arpack/cu5By/deps/usr/downloads/Arpack.v3.5.0-3.x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc8.tar.gz... ERROR: LoadError: LibraryProduct(nothing, ["libarpack"], :libarpack, "Prefix(/home/ginggs/.julia/packages/Arpack/cu5By/deps/usr)") is not satisfied, cannot generate deps.jl! Stacktrace: [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33 [2] #write_deps_file#152(::Bool, ::Function, ::String, ::Array{LibraryProduct,1}) at /home/ginggs/.julia/packages/BinaryProvider/TcAwt/src/Products.jl:414 [3] (::getfield(BinaryProvider, Symbol("#kw##write_deps_file")))(::NamedTuple{(:verbose,),Tuple{Bool}}, ::typeof(write_deps_file), ::String, ::Array{LibraryProduct,1}) at ./none:0 [4] top-level scope at none:0 [5] include at ./boot.jl:317 [inlined] [6] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1044 [7] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29 [8] include(::String) at ./client.jl:392 [9] top-level scope at none:0 in expression starting at /home/ginggs/.julia/packages/Arpack/cu5By/deps/build.jl:74 The only difference seems to be gcc7 vs gcc8 in the filename. Using the Debian version, libarpack.so seems to be built successfully, but there's a problem generating deps.jl.