issues with calling build_tarballs.jl (no constructors have been defined for Platform)

[Alexander-Barth]

I am try to run the following on Julia v1.5.1 with BinaryBuilder v0.2.6 and Linux (x86_64):

cd ~/src/Yggdrasil/H/HDF5 
julia build_tarballs.jl --help

As shown here. However I get the following error:

ERROR: LoadError: MethodError: no constructors have been defined for Platform
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at /home/abarth/src/Yggdrasil/H/HDF5/build_tarballs.jl:93
 [2] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:380
 [3] include(::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:368
 [4] exec_options(::Base.JLOptions) at ./client.jl:296
 [5] _start() at ./client.jl:506
in expression starting at /home/abarth/src/Yggdrasil/H/HDF5/build_tarballs.jl:93

Any ideas how to test the build of a specific platform would be greatly appreciated.

[Alexander-Barth]

OK, I think I need to use BinaryBuilder#master and Julia 1.6-dev to compile HDF5.

[giordano]

Yes, Yggdrasil uses BinaryBuilder#master (and BinaryBuilderBase#master), which requires a reasonably recent version of Julia from master because we need some features available only there.

Answering your original question, you could locally modify to have platform = Platform[] and then run the script with

julia build_tarballs.jl --verbose --debug <triplet>

[Alexander-Barth]

Good to know. Thanks a lot @giordano !