Asked around, and the original problem is

FAILURE: Unable to find binary thrift version 0.9.2. Update --binaries-path-by-id to find binaries for (u'darwin', u'18')

, which they tried to work around by adding:

[binaries]
path_by_id: {('darwin', '18'): ('mac', '10.14')}

For context, I also have under the

[DEFAULT]

section

path_by_id: {('darwin', '18'): ('mac', '10.13')}