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I'm opening this to have something to track getting Julia updated
and to avoid duplication of effort in case anyone else may also be
working on updating Julia. The current version in guix is 1.6.3
which was released almost a year ago and wasn't building for me on
aarch64 due to https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56711and this
motivated me to see if I couldn't also get the most recent Julia
to build!
The following patch is just a WIP and not in a state to merge, but
it does build for me on aarch64 with the tests disabled. I have
not tried running the tests yet. But I am able to install packages
using the builtin Julia package manager which I wasn't able to do
with guix's julia v1.6.3.
A few notes:
- Julia now appears to work with an unpatched llvm-13, however it
requires building llvm as a shared library with the
LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB option and not the BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
option, however this appears to be the recommended option by the
llvm docs. I'm not sure if this breaks other things in guix that
depend on llvm. There's a possibly related issue here
- I hard coded the path to the ca-certificates.crt file in guix as
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt however I suspect this is not
the right way to do this.
I'm sure there's other issues as well, but I'm still relatively
new to guix, so some help in getting this polished up would be
great! Hopefully it can be ready by the time Julia 1.8.0 is
actually released.