GLFW error on Julia 0.5 on Linux with Mesa about glfw.jl HOT 6 CLOSED

Bullseye. That worked! Thanks!

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Are you sure your Radeon drivers are installed correctly? I think Mesa shouldn't use LLVM if it isn't in software mode.
Can you post the driver version?
Maybe with: dmesg | grep fglrx

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I think the drivers are installed correctly. I'm not having any graphical problems (including GLFW on Julia 0.4) outside of Julia 0.5 on all three of my linux machines. Hopefully I haven't made a habit of messing up the installs on all of them :)

Here is the driver information for one (Debian Stretch):

nicolelislab@dixie:~$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

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Here is another Debian machine:

nicolelislab@shemp:~$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD OLAND
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.6.8
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.6.8
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 10.6.8
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

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Here's one more (ubuntu 16.04):

nicolelislab@curly:~$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TONGA (DRM 3.1.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

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@Keno suggested that this is a bug in the Linux distribution, which does indeed end up in dynamically linking the wrong LLVM lib.
For a fix, try linkinkg LLVM statically. So when building Julia, insert this line override USE_LLVM_SHLIB = 0 into Make.user (or create it if not already present).
Hope that helps! :)

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