Stream: helpdesk (published)

Topic: Build error (on Plots) when running tests

view this post on Zulip Sasha (Mar 01 2021 at 14:31):

Hi, I'm new to the language and I'm learning/experimenting on how to use tests in Julia

The issue that I encounter when I run the tests under my environment like this

(testing-pluto) pkg> test

I get an error of failing precompilation of Plots that cascades from libvorbis_jll -> FFMPEG_jll -> FFMPEG -> Plots

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: ArgumentError: Package libvorbis_jll [e895b1f3-4dc4-43e3-88f4-b83e006265b7] is required but does not seem to be installed:
 - Run `Pkg.instantiate()` to install all recorded dependencies.
.
.
.
  LoadError: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to /home/runner/.julia/compiled/v1.5/Plots/ld3vC_31teM.ji.

What I don't understand is that I'm able to run the tests script if I just execute them as a regular script like with

julia --color=yes --check-bounds=yes  --depwarn=yes --project -e 'cd("test");include("runtests.jl")'

So is pretty clear that some other things happen when you execute the tests using Pkg.test()

Can you explain what can be happening or point me where to learn about it?
So I can try to fix it or file an issue where it corresponds

Thanks!

For repro you can look at the code in
here, look at the add_tests branch.
And I set up two GH actions so its possible to see the the full stack trace of both ways to execute the tests.

Last updated: Oct 02 2023 at 04:34 UTC