It is not strictly necessary to build from source - try searching this list for "sysimg" and look for the "--build" incantation for PPA installs (I'm pretty sure it has come up before).
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, and I now figured out why I can't get Julia to pre-compile the modules > I want. Apparently you have to be building it from source... > > Now I'll go and give that a try. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > > > On Friday, 24 October 2014 15:47:58 UTC+2, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> >> Yes, it seems to work. Apparently my Julia directory is >> "/usr/bin/../share/julia/base/", so that's one problem solved. Thanks! >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel. >> >> On 24 October 2014 14:53, Till Ehrengruber <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You cuold look where your julia base library is located for example by >>> >>> functionloc(push!) >>> ("/usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.3.1/bin/../share/julia/base/array.jl",464) >>> >>> >>> I'm on OS X but it should work on Ubuntu as well >>> >>> Am Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014 14:31:32 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Carrera: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am running Ubuntu with Julia 0.3.1 installed from PPA. I want to >>>> figure out where my Julia base directory is so I can create a userimg.jl >>>> file so I can pre-compile some modules that I use often. I got the >>>> idea from here: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/precompilation.md >>>> >>>> The problem is that I cannot figure out where my jula/base directory >>>> is. It appears to be nowhere. I have two candidate directories: >>>> >>>> /usr/share/julia >>>> /usr/local/julia >>>> >>>> My Julia version is 0.3.1. The file /usr/share/julia/VERSION says it >>>> is 0.3.0-prerelease. On the other hand, /var/lib/dpkg/info/julia.list >>>> seems to say that /usr/share/julia is the correct directory. So that >>>> doesn't make sense. The other directory --- /usr/local/julia --- does >>>> not have any VERSION file or anything that I could that would tell me what >>>> version of Julia it is for. I tried adding the "userimg.jl" file to >>>> both directories, but that didn't do anything. Even more strangely, neither >>>> directory one seems to be required for Julia to run. Look: >>>> >>>> >>>> $ sudo mv /usr/share/julia $HOME/usr-share-julia >>>> $ sudo mv /usr/local/julia $HOME/usr-local-julia >>>> $ >>>> $ julia --version >>>> julia version 0.3.1 >>>> $ >>>> $ julia >>>> _ >>>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >>>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >>>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. >>>> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >>>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC) >>>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org release >>>> |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu >>>> >>>> julia> >>>> >>>> >>>> In other words, neither of those directories seems to be needed to run >>>> Julia. So, I am completely stuck. I have two "base" directories, >>>> neither of which seems to do anything. >>>> >>>> Can anyone help me out? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Daniel. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase >> that means it's not fun to do. >> >
