Compilation fails on Mac/Homebrew

[trg818]

Hi,
I tried to install GMT.jl on a Mac (Tahoe 26.0.1) under Julia 1.12.1 as provided by Homebrew, but the precompilation of three modules fails due to segfaults as shown below. Is this a known problem, and is there anything I can do about it?

PkgPrecompileError: The following 3 direct dependencies failed to precompile:

GMTDataFramesExt 

Failed to precompile GMTDataFramesExt [b0121151-b40e-578b-8798-214dacfa5da6] to "/Users/ruedas/.julia/compiled/v1.12/GMTDataFramesExt/jl_DyjSvy".
[30986] signal 11 (2): Segmentation fault: 11
in expression starting at /Users/ruedas/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/src/GMT.jl:385
Allocations: 182962822 (Pool: 182959814; Big: 3008); GC: 41
Allocations: 182962822 (Pool: 182959814; Big: 3ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54] to "/Users/ruedas/.julia/compiled/v1.12/GMT/jl_HvQtwj".
Stacktrace:
 [1] mkpidlock(f::Base.var"#__require_prelocked##0#__require_prelocked##1"{Base.PkgId, String, Dict{String, Int64}}, at::String, pid::Int32; kwopts::@Kwargs{stale_age::Int64, wait::Bool})
   @ FileWatching.Pidfile /opt/homebrew/Cellar/julia/1.12.1/share/julia/stdlib/v1.12/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:93
 [2] top-level scope
   @ ~/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/ext/GMTDataFramesExt/GMTDataFramesExt.jl:2
 [3] top-level scope
   @ stdin:5
in expression starting at /Users/ruedas/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/ext/GMTDataFramesExt/GMTDataFramesExt.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:5
GMTParkerFFTExt 

Failed to precompile GMTParkerFFTExt [35a23bc9-6f20-5cbc-8971-9cdf66427582] to "/Users/ruedas/.julia/compiled/v1.12/GMTParkerFFTExt/jl_2Zkaqs".
[30993] signal 11 (2): Segmentation fault: 11
in expression starting at /Users/ruedas/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/src/GMT.jl:385
Allocations: 182474338 (Pool: 182471335; Big: 3003); GC: 40
Allocations: 182474338 (Pool: 182471335; Big: 3ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54] to "/Users/ruedas/.julia/compiled/v1.12/GMT/jl_Hvegv4".
Stacktrace:
 [1] mkpidlock(f::Base.var"#__require_prelocked##0#__require_prelocked##1"{Base.PkgId, String, Dict{String, Int64}}, at::String, pid::Int32; kwopts::@Kwargs{stale_age::Int64, wait::Bool})
   @ FileWatching.Pidfile /opt/homebrew/Cellar/julia/1.12.1/share/julia/stdlib/v1.12/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:93
 [2] top-level scope
   @ ~/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/ext/GMTParkerFFTExt/GMTParkerFFTExt.jl:2
 [3] top-level scope
   @ stdin:5
in expression starting at /Users/ruedas/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/ext/GMTParkerFFTExt/GMTParkerFFTExt.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:5

GMT 

Failed to precompile GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54] to "/Users/ruedas/.julia/compiled/v1.12/GMT/jl_O8LKSd".
[30980] signal 11 (2): Segmentation fault: 11
in expression starting at /Users/ruedas/.julia/packages/GMT/Td19G/src/GMT.jl:385
Allocations: 182272918 (Pool: 182269920; Big: 2998); GC: 41
Allocations: 182272918 (Pool: 182269920; Big: 2

[joa-quim]

Julia clearly insists that Homebrew and alike installing solutions should not be used. The only recommended way is to use juliaup

[trg818]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that, because my Homebrew install has usually worked quite well. I have replaced that Julia installation with the one by juliaup now, and now GMT.jl was precompiled without problems.
As an aside: I hope juliaup will somehow be integrated into Homebrew and other general installation managers rather sooner than later. It doesn't help the popularity of Julia if it insists on an installation procedure of its own.

[joa-quim]

The case is more complicated than that. Problem is that some used dependencies by Julia need to be patched (LLVM is the most striking case) and when non patched versions are used, like it was likely your case, errors and crashes arise.