It depends on if they have binary dependencies that need to be compiled. On Linux, I believe we often try to use system packages, but I may be wrong.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Rajn <[email protected]> wrote: > It is now working and resolved! > Thank you all and I just followed Elliot's advice on downloading the > binary 64-bit file. > I have a follow up question - if I have to download packages do I need to > worry that I have an old version of compiler - or does everything works as > usual? > > > > > On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:18:53 PM UTC-4, Rajn wrote: >> >> I will try Elliot' s suggestion because https cloning did not work - I >> qualify this statement - it did work in the sense it downloaded the files >> properly but make gives me the same errors as before. >> So it must be due to old compiler that I pointed out. >> Thanks >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:49:19 PM UTC-4, Elliot Saba wrote: >>> >>> Building from Github .tar.gz files are supported as long as you download >>> the tar.gz files from the "releases" page e.g. this one >>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases>. Click the big green >>> button. >>> Cloning over https is simple, you just need to use that URL instead of >>> the git:// URL, and everything else should work normally. Specifically, >>> you should be able to do: >>> >>> git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git >>> >>> And it should work just fine, barring any strange network problems. >>> >>> >>> However, it looks to me like your compiler is too old (and you just sent >>> a message out about that). Unless you have some reason to compile it >>> yourself, could I ask you to try out a new binary distribution we're >>> testing? It's just a .tar.gz file that you extract somewhere and you can >>> run Julia straight out of that, no installation necessary. You can >>> download the latest 64-bit version here >>> <http://status.julialang.org/download/linux-x86_64>, or the latest 32-bit >>> version here <http://status.julialang.org/download/linux-i386>. >>> >>> If you want to compile your own copy, I'd suggest adding the >>> OPENBLAS_DYNAMIC_ARCH=0 line to the end of your make invocation, as Glen's >>> link suggests. >>> -E >>> >>
