Thanks, Michael!
Lex
> On 11 Oct 2016, at 10:29, Michael J Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Lex,
>
> Quoting Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> on Tue, 11 Oct 2016
> 09:38:04 +0200:
>
>> We will be teaching the SWC ‘make’ lesson for the first time in a couple of
>> weeks. Do we need to provide the learners with instructions for installing
>> make, or is it a default part of all platforms? If not, are there any
>> more-or-less curated installation instructions available somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Lex Nederbragt
>
> You'll need to provide installation instructions. Putting them into the
> workshop template [1] was recently dropped in favour of putting them into
> their lesson template [2], which hasn't yet happened. I use my own, copying
> and pasting from [3] (which renders as [4]). Though, as the SWC installer [5]
> installs GNU Make onto GitBash I'd change the Windows instructions to be [6].
>
> cheers,
> mike
>
> [1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/issues/228
> [2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/make-novice
> [3]
> https://github.com/hpcarcher/2014-12-03-edinburgh/blob/gh-pages/_includes/setup.html
> [4] http://hpcarcher.github.io/2014-12-03-edinburgh/
> [5] https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer
> [6]
>
> <p>
> The Software Carpentry Windows installer installs Make.
> <ul>
> <li>
> To test, open a Git Bash window, type <code>make</code>, and press Enter.
> </li>
> <li>
> You should see the following message
> <pre>make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.</pre>
> This means that Make was successfully installed.
> Otherwise, you'll see this error message:
> <pre>bash: make: command not found</pre>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </p>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Lex Nederbragt
>> Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
>> Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo
>> P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway
>> Ph. +47 22844132 +47 48028722 Fax. +47 22854001
>> Email [email protected]
>> http://flxlex.flavors.me/
>>
>>
>
>
>
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