Trouble building Arpack in Julia 1.1.1, macOS Catalina

[anubhavratha]

Hi,
I am facing trouble trying to build Arpack. Prior to trying to build Arpack, my Julia installation was running stable and as expected.

The error message that I get when I try running Pkg.build("Arpack") is in the following:

julia> Pkg.build("Arpack")
  Building Arpack → `~/.juliapro/JuliaPro_v1.1.1.1/packages/Arpack/zCmTA/deps/build.log`
┌ Error: Error building `Arpack`: 
│ ┌ Warning: Platform `x86_64-apple-darwin14-libgfortran5` is not an officially supported platform
│ └ @ BinaryProvider /Users/vagrant/worker/juliapro-release-osx1011-0_6/build/tmp_julia/Julia-1.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.1/BinaryProvider/src/PlatformNames.jl:450
│ ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: Will not install a tarball of platform unknown-unknown-unknown on a system of platform x86_64-apple-darwin14-gcc8-cxx03 unless `ignore_platform` is explicitly set to `true`., override this by setting `ignore_platform`
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] #install#133(::Prefix, ::String, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at /Users/vagrant/worker/juliapro-release-osx1011-0_6/build/tmp_julia/Julia-1.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.1/BinaryProvider/src/Prefix.jl:294
│  [2] (::getfield(BinaryProvider, Symbol("#kw##install")))(::NamedTuple{(:prefix, :force, :verbose),Tuple{Prefix,Bool,Bool}}, ::typeof(install), ::String, ::String) at ./none:0
│  [3] top-level scope at /Users/anubhav/.juliapro/JuliaPro_v1.1.1.1/packages/Arpack/zCmTA/deps/build.jl:70
│  [4] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at /Applications/JuliaPro-1.1.1.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib:?
│  [5] include(::Module, ::String) at /Applications/JuliaPro-1.1.1.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib:?
│  [6] include(::String) at ./client.jl:403
│  [7] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at /Users/anubhav/.juliapro/JuliaPro_v1.1.1.1/packages/Arpack/zCmTA/deps/build.jl:68
└ @ Pkg.Operations /Users/vagrant/worker/juliapro-release-osx1011-0_6/build/tmp_julia/Julia-1.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.1/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1138

I have looked around the Julia Discourse and found that this issue has been marked resolved but none of the solutions proposed in this thread worked for me: #5

My LinearAlgebra and Distributions package in Julia were working fine before I tried to add Arpack but now it appears they are not working anymore. More details about my Julia version are below. I installed Julia from the official binary source here: https://julialang.org/downloads/

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.1.1
Commit 55e36cc (2019-05-16 04:10 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7360U CPU @ 2.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = atom  -a
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 2
  JULIA_PKG_SERVER = https://pkg.juliacomputing.com/
  JULIA_PKG_TOKEN_PATH = /Users/anubhav/.juliapro/token.toml

My OS details are:
macOS Catalina Version 10.15.3 (19D76)

Has anyone faced such an issue recently? I would appreciate any help in trying to resolve this.

Thanks!

[hannahrocio]

Hello, I am facing the same problem and have a similar OS. Did you figure out a fix? thanks!