I've updated the branch again (after a tracking down and working around an
issue introduced with #13412),
had to get that great jb/function PR in!
All unit tests pass.
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 9:02:50 PM UTC-5, Scott Jones wrote:
>
> This is still a WIP, and can definitely use some more work in 1) testing
> on other platforms 2) better disentangling of documentation 3) advice on
> how better to accomplish it's goals. 4) testing with different subsets of
> functionality turned on (I've tested just with BUILD_FULL disabled ("lite"
> version), or enabled (same as master) so far.
>
> This branch (spj/lite in ScottPJones repository,
> https://github.com/ScottPJones/julia/tree/spj/lite) by default will build
> a "lite" version of Julia, and by putting
> override BUILD_xxx = 1
> lines in Make.user, different functionality can be built back in (such as
> BigInt, BigFloat, LinAlg, Float16, Mmap, Threads, ...). See Make.inc for
> the full list.
>
> I've also made it so that all unit tests pass (that don't use disabled
> functionality).
> (the hard part there was that testing can be spread all over the place,
> esp. for BigInt, BigFloat, Complex, and Rational types).
>
> It will also not build libraries such as arpack, lapack, openblas, fftw,
> suitesparse, mpfr, gmp, depending on what BUILD_* options have been set.
>
> This is only a first step, the real goal is to be able to have a minimal
> useful core, that can have the other parts easily added, in such a way that
> they still appear to have
> been defined completely in Base.
> One place where I think this can be very useful is for building minimal
> versions of Julia to run on things like the Raspberry Pi.
>
> -Scott
>
>
>
