Building a package using PackageCompiler fails on Julia 1.1

[asinghvi17]

using PackageCompiler
PackageCompiler.compile_package("Makie", force = false)

yields the output

Launching new julia process to run commands...
ERROR: Unexpected format of "Base.julia_cmd()", you may be using an incompatible version of Julia
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
 [2] build_julia_cmd(::String, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing, ::Nothing) at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/static_julia.jl:213
 [3] snoop_vanilla(::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::Expr, ::String) at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/snooping.jl:14
 [4] snoop(::String, ::String, ::String, ::Array{Pair{String,String},1}, ::Array{String,1}) at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/snooping.jl:39
 [5] (::getfield(PackageCompiler, Symbol("##25#28")))(::Tuple{String,String}) at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/snooping.jl:65
 [6] map at ./tuple.jl:165 [inlined]
 [7] snoop_userimg at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/snooping.jl:54 [inlined]
 [8] #compile_package#39(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Nothing, ::Function, ::Tuple{String,String}) at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/PackageCompiler.jl:105
 [9] #compile_package at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [10] #compile_package#36 at /Users/anshul/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/jBqfm/src/PackageCompiler.jl:92 [inlined]
 [11] (::getfield(PackageCompiler, Symbol("#kw##compile_package")))(::NamedTuple{(:force,),Tuple{Bool}}, ::typeof(compile_package), ::String) at ./none:0
 [12] top-level scope at none:0

The same statement worked without issue on Julia v1.0.2. It seems like a change in 1.1 that caused the error, specifically JuliaLang/julia #29858

Any advice on this would be appreciated.

OS: MacOS 10.14.2

[SimonDanisch]

Please always try to update first when running into a bug like this ;) This should be fixed in the newest tagged version!

[asinghvi17]

That's odd...I ran `]up` just before this, and updating now doesn't change PackageCompiler, I'm still at v0.5.1. Looking at METADATA.jl's commit history, it doesn't seem to have updated yet, still on v0.5.1 - but I can always get PackageCompiler#master - should have tried that. Thanks!

[SimonDanisch]

Ah wait a second, seems like the tag didn't go through.
There does not seem to be any 0.5.2 tag in METADATA. @lucatrv I also don't see any PR to METADATA!
Could it be, that we need to retag so that attobot picks it up?

[asinghvi17]

This particular issue has been resolved; however, a new one has cropped up in v0.6.0.

[lucatrv]

@SimonDanisch yes apparently something went wrong with tag v0.5.2