Good point. pcre 8.31 is a hard requirement as of now. We should probably file
the issue upstream, so that we can use a newer version of pcre.
-viral
On 22-Jul-2014, at 3:14 pm, Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + confirmed
> Control: severity -1 grave
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Le mardi 22 juillet 2014 à 09:11 +0200, Eric Marsden a écrit :
>> Package: julia
>> Version: 0.2.1+dfsg-3
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> When invoking julia, it prints the error message below and exits.
>>
>> ERROR: could not open file /tmp//tmp//etc/julia/juliarc.jl
>> in include at boot.jl:238
>>
>> "julia -f" starts up OK.
>>
>> Experimenting a little, it seems that the bug is in the abspath
>> function, which is called from load_juliarc in client.jl.
>>
>> julia> abspath("/foo")
>> "/tmp//foo"
>>
>> where "/tmp" is the CWD.
>
> Thanks for reporting this. I can confirm the bug. It is triggered by the
> upgrade of libpcre3, from version 1:8.31-5 to 1:8.35-2. Downgrading to
> libpcre3 1:8.31-5 solves the issue.
>
> At this stage, I don't know if this is an ABI break in libpcre3 (#755439
> looks like a possible candidate), or if it is related to the way Julia
> internally stores regular expressions in its LLVM bytecode image
> (sys.ji).
>
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