cannot build IJulia without disabling Julia's startup.jl

[matthias314]

I've just replaced Julia 1.10.0-beta3 with 1.10.0-rc1. Afterwards I wanted to build IJulia again. However, I always got the error message

(@v1.10) pkg> build IJulia
    Building Conda ─→ `/usr/local/julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/8c86e48c0db1564a1d49548d3515ced5d604c408/build.log`
ERROR: Error building `Conda`: 
ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: Package InteractiveUtils not found in current path.
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("InteractiveUtils")` to install the InteractiveUtils package.
Stacktrace:
 [1] macro expansion
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1766 [inlined]
 [2] macro expansion
   @ Base ./lock.jl:267 [inlined]
 [3] __require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1747
 [4] #invoke_in_world#3
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:921 [inlined]
 [5] invoke_in_world
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:918 [inlined]
 [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1740
in expression starting at /usr/local/julia/config/startup.jl:3

Line 3 of my startup.jl is using InteractiveUtils. Saying add InteractiveUtils at the Pkg prompt doesn't change anything. However, if I start Julia with --startup-file=no, then it works without problems. I don't know if this is an issue with Julia, IJulia or Conda, or maybe none at all. If this is how it's supposed be, then maybe one could mention the necessary --startup-file=no option in the documentation.

Julia Version 1.10.0-rc1
Commit 5aaa9485436 (2023-11-03 07:44 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 4 × Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, skylake)
  Threads: 1 on 4 virtual cores

[stevengj]

Do any other packages work?

[matthias314]

Building BenchmarkTools, OffsetArrays, MacroTools and BangBang works, but it seems to me that building them is a no-op. Can you suggest a package to try?

[stevengj]

PyCall, MathJaxRenderer, Gurobi, and WinRPM are examples of other packages that have build scripts.

(Note that the error here is from building Conda, not IJulia, by the way.)

[matthias314]

I've tried PyCall and Gurobi (both on a different machine, but again with InteractiveUtils in startup.jl). The result is the same. For PyCall the error is again triggered by Conda, and in the other case it is Gurobi itself:

    Building Gurobi → `/usr/local/julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/1eeff1b016fae36fbd4524c40b6ebff44748c811/build.log`
ERROR: Error building `Gurobi`: 
ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: Package InteractiveUtils not found in current path.
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("InteractiveUtils")` to install the InteractiveUtils package.
Stacktrace:
 [1] macro expansion
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1766 [inlined]
 [2] macro expansion
   @ Base ./lock.jl:267 [inlined]
 [3] __require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1747
 [4] #invoke_in_world#3
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:921 [inlined]
 [5] invoke_in_world
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:918 [inlined]
 [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1740
in expression starting at /usr/local/julia/config/startup.jl:3

Building IJulia and Gurobi with Julia 1.9.3 work fine.

EDIT: Adding and building MathJaxRenderer works with Julia 1.10.0-rc1. However, build MathJaxRenderer does not produce any output, so I don't know if the build script is actually called.

[stevengj]

In this case, the problem is not specific to any of these packages, but is something else, maybe something weird in your package environment.

Since it's a general Julia question (not package-specific), I would start by asking on https://discourse.julialang.org/