Can't start julia-1.8.5 on hcp with Linux

[Zou-Bo]

I can't start julia-1.8.5 on my school's hcp server using Linux, but julia-1.6.7 works well.

The julia-1.8.5 is installed as the website "https://julialang.org/downloads/platform/#linux_and_freebsd" instructs.

I receive the error message as follows:

fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
InitError(mod=:Sys, error=ErrorException("PCRE compilation error: unrecognised compile-time option bit(s) at offset 0"))
error at ./error.jl:35
compile at ./pcre.jl:155
compile at ./regex.jl:82
#occursin#468 at ./regex.jl:265 [inlined]
occursin at ./regex.jl:264 [inlined]
isdirpath at ./path.jl:117 [inlined]
normpath at ./path.jl:373
abspath at ./path.jl:430
abspath at ./path.jl:439 [inlined]
__init_build at ./sysinfo.jl:128
__init__ at ./sysinfo.jl:120
jfptr___init___47949.clone_1 at /home1/06427/zoubo/julia-1.8.5/lib/julia/sys.so (unknown line)
_jl_invoke at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/gf.c:2377 [inlined]
ijl_apply_generic at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/gf.c:2559
jl_apply at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/julia.h:1843 [inlined]
jl_module_run_initializer at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/toplevel.c:75
_finish_julia_init at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/init.c:765
julia_init at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/init.c:698
jl_repl_entrypoint at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/src/jlapi.c:713
main at /cache/build/default-amdci4-2/julialang/julia-release-1-dot-8/cli/loader_exe.c:59
__libc_start_main at /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 (unknown line)
unknown function (ip: 0x401098)

[KristofferC]

Is the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH set?

[Zou-Bo]

Sorry, I don't how to set that.

[Seelengrab]

If you've just downloaded the executable from the website, you should be able to query that environment variable using something like echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Please post the output of that command here.

[Zou-Bo]

Here's the output

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/apps/pmix/3.2.3/lib:/opt/apps/intel19/python3/3.9.7/lib:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.4.304/linux/mpi/intel64/libfabric/lib:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.4.304/linux/mpi/intel64/lib/release:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.4.304/linux/mpi/intel64/lib:/opt/intel/debugger_2020/libipt/intel64/lib:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.1.217/linux/daal/lib/intel64_lin:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.1.217/linux/tbb/lib/intel64_lin/gcc4.8:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.1.217/linux/mkl/lib/intel64_lin:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.1.217/linux/ipp/lib/intel64:/opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2020.1.217/linux/compiler/lib/intel64_lin:/opt/apps/gcc/9.4.0/lib64:/opt/apps/gcc/9.4.0/lib:/usr/lib64

[giordano]

Start Julia with

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" julia

[Zou-Bo]

Thanks, this approach does work. I can start Julia with that, but I wonder if there's a way to fix this so that I can directly start it. That may be helpful as I plan to use vs code instead of the command line.

[Zou-Bo]

Can I fix this by fixing the PCRE that shows in the error message?

[ufechner7]

You can for example create a script with the name julia18 and the content

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" julia

Then you configure vscode to execute julia18 instaed of julia.

Make the script executable with:

chmod +x julia18

and put it in a folder that is in the search path, for example into the same folder as the executable julia.