[julia-users] building julia 0.5.0 on FreeBSD 11

[Kostas Oikonomou]

Hi, I'm following the instructions in the README, trying to build 0.5.0 
from source on an amd64 machine.   

However, I'm stuck at errors  in the OpenBlas build:


blas_server.c:569:16: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct rlimit'
        struct rlimit rlim;
                      ^
blas_server.c:569:9: note: forward declaration of 'struct rlimit'
        struct rlimit rlim;
               ^
blas_server.c:578:17: warning: implicit declaration of function 'raise' is 
invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        if(0 != raise(SIGINT)) {
                ^
blas_server.c:578:23: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SIGINT'
        if(0 != raise(SIGINT)) {
                      ^
1 warning and 2 errors generated.
gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:101: blas_server.o] Error 1


I also tried using FreeBSD's OpenBlas port, but that apparently creates a 
conflict between gcc 4.8.4 and the recommended gcc6.

Here is my Make.user file:

# libunwind needs a small patch to its tests to compile.
FC=gfortran6
# gfortran can't link binaries:
FFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/gcc6
# System libraries installed by pkg are not on the compiler path by default:
LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib
CPPFLAGS=/usr/local/include
# Problems with OpenBLAS 
OPENBLAS_TARGET_ARCH=BARCELONA
OPENBLAS_DYNAMIC_ARCH=0 
# Installation
prefix=/opt/julia

Thanks for any help.

Kostas