<p dir="auto">Hello. I was trying to build julia in Scientific Linux SL release 5.5 and got something like:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="    JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys.ji
error during bootstrap: assign array[5]: index out of range

make[1]: *** [/imports/home/s/shhong/src/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys.ji] Error 1
make: *** [debug] Error 2"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">    JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys.ji
error during bootstrap: assign array[5]: index out of range

make[1]: *** [/imports/home/s/shhong/src/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys.ji] Error 1
make: *** [debug] Error 2
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">Any idea? Also, in Julia how am I supposed to probe what is wrong in the case like this?</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm seeing an error on bootstrap but in a different location:</p>
<p dir="auto">CC src/sys.o<br>
CC src/init.o<br>
CC src/task.o<br>
CC src/array.o<br>
CC src/dump.o<br>
CC src/toplevel.o<br>
CC src/gc.o<br>
LINK usr/lib/libjulia-release.so<br>
PERL base/pcre_h.jl<br>
PERL base/errno_h.jl<br>
PERL base/os_detect.jl<br>
PERL extras/glpk_h.jl<br>
PERL extras/julia_message_types_h.jl<br>
CC ui/repl.o<br>
CC ui/repl-basic.o<br>
LINK usr/bin/julia-release-basic<br>
CC ui/repl-readline.o</p>
<p dir="auto">repl-readline.c: In function âinit_historyâ:<br>
repl-readline.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function âstpcpyâ<br>
repl-readline.c:73: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function âstpcpyâ<br>
LINK usr/bin/julia-release-readline<br>
LINK usr/bin/julia-release-webserver<br>
JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys.ji<br>
could not show value of type ErrorException<br>
error during bootstrap: syntax error: error expanding macro _jl_sort_functions at sort.jl:189</p>
<p dir="auto">make[1]: *** [/n/home00/pedmon/test/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys.ji] Error 1<br>
make: *** [release] Error 2</p>
<p dir="auto">This is building on RedHat 5.1, but I also get it on CentOS 6.2</p>