The latest version of Optim (1.0/1.1) seems to have broken the precompilation in Julia v1.0.0. See lines 3189-3223 of this build: https://travis-ci.org/github/ericagol/TRAPPIST1_Spitzer/builds/725391351#L3304 The error seems to be triggered by the command "using Optim" in several scripts the above repository.