@quickactivate breaks ChainRules precompilation

[masenka31]

Hi, I'm getting an error similar to JuliaDiff/ChainRules.jl#598

When I activate environment with

using DrWatson
@quickactivate

Precompilation of ChainRules.jl breaks with error:

[ Info: Precompiling ChainRules [082447d4-558c-5d27-93f4-14fc19e9eca2]
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: allequal not defined
Stacktrace:
  [1] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/ChainRulesCore/GUvJT/src/rule_definition_tools.jl:383
  [2] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:418
  [3] include(x::String)
    @ ChainRules ~/.julia/packages/ChainRules/uh22h/src/ChainRules.jl:1
  [4] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/ChainRules/uh22h/src/ChainRules.jl:27
  [5] include
    @ ./Base.jl:418 [inlined]
  [6] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1318
  [7] top-level scope
    @ none:1
  [8] eval
    @ ./boot.jl:373 [inlined]
  [9] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude ./client.jl:453
 [10] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at /home/maskomic/.julia/packages/ChainRules/uh22h/src/rulesets/Base/nondiff.jl:99
in expression starting at /home/maskomic/.julia/packages/ChainRules/uh22h/src/ChainRules.jl:1
ERROR: Failed to precompile ChainRules [082447d4-558c-5d27-93f4-14fc19e9eca2] to /home/maskomic/.julia/compiled/v1.7/ChainRules/jl_y9fhTb.
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(s::String)
   @ Base ./error.jl:33
 [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::IO, internal_stdout::IO, ignore_loaded_modules::Bool)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1466
 [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1410
 [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1120
 [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:1013
 [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base ./loading.jl:997

However, when activating environment with ] activate ., everything works fine, even when importing DrWatson later on.

I am running current DrWatson.jl v2.9.1 on Julia 1.7.2 with this environment:

(GroupAD) pkg> st
      Status `~/projects/fork/GroupAD.jl/Project.toml`
  [c7e460c6] ArgParse v1.1.4
  [fbb218c0] BSON v0.3.5
  [052768ef] CUDA v3.10.1
  [082447d4] ChainRules v1.35.2
  [c648c4dd] ConditionalDists v0.4.10
  [124859b0] DataDeps v0.7.8
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.3.4
  [b4f34e82] Distances v0.10.7
  [31c24e10] Distributions v0.25.62
  [ced4e74d] DistributionsAD v0.6.40
  [634d3b9d] DrWatson v2.9.1
  [251d5f9e] EvalMetrics v0.2.1
  [5789e2e9] FileIO v1.14.0
  [587475ba] Flux v0.12.10
  [432009dd] Flux3D v0.1.6
  [f67ccb44] HDF5 v0.16.9
  [9920b226] MLDataPattern v0.5.5
  [1d0525e4] Mill v2.7.1
  [b8a86587] NearestNeighbors v0.4.10
  [189a3867] Reexport v1.2.2
  [2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.33.16
  [f3b207a7] StatsPlots v0.14.34
  [98cad3c8] ValueHistories v0.5.4
  [8bb1440f] DelimitedFiles
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra
  [a63ad114] Mmap
  [9a3f8284] Random
  [10745b16] Statistics

The minimal example would be simply

using DrWatson
@quickactivate
using ChainRules

People reporting the bug in different packages (ChainRules, ChainRulesCore, Flux) usually fixed it with updating packages, but my behavior is different, since everything works when not using @quickactivate. Any idea why that might be? Any help appreciated, thanks :)

[Datseris]

Sorry, I know nothing about ChainRules.jl and how it works, so I can't help here. However what I'm finding difficult to understand is whether this is a DrWatson issue or a ChainRules issue. What I mean is, @quickactivate is agnostic to the rest of the project's packages, and in fact simply uses well-established Pkg commands. So, it is difficult for me to understand why this is a DrWatson issue, and I would be inclined to believe it is a ChainRules issue.

Or perhaps it matters that you use a macro? If you do the same by explictly calling quiactivate(@__DIR__) or quickactiavte(explicit_path), do you get same error?

[masenka31]

I played with it a little bit more and it seems that simply using DrWatson breaks the ChainRules package. When I do

using DrWatson
] activate .
using ChainRules

it breaks as well. It seems that loading any package before activating the environment (does not matter if with DrWatson or with Pkg), it breaks. Did not think about this possibility, but I tested it with another package, and it happens as well. Not a DrWatson.jl issue then, will move it to ChainRules. Thanks anyways, and sorry for the wrong bug. I guess it can be deleted.

[Datseris]

no worries, glad you found a solution in the end!