Author: Manuel Jacob <[email protected]> Branch: improve-docs Changeset: r73546:460039f9b847 Date: 2014-09-15 20:58 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/460039f9b847/
Log: Move these paragraphs up. diff --git a/pypy/doc/build.rst b/pypy/doc/build.rst --- a/pypy/doc/build.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/build.rst @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ Building PyPy from Source ========================= +For building PyPy, we recommend installing a pre-built PyPy first (see +:doc:`install`). It is possible to build PyPy with CPython, but it will take a +lot longer to run -- depending on your architecture, between two and three +times as long. + +Even when using PyPy to build PyPy, translation is time-consuming -- 30 +minutes on a fast machine -- and RAM-hungry. You will need **at least** 2 GB +of memory on a 32-bit machine and 4GB on a 64-bit machine. + + Clone the repository -------------------- @@ -35,16 +45,6 @@ .. _our nightly tests: http://buildbot.pypy.org/summary?branch=<trunk> -For building PyPy, we recommend installing a pre-built PyPy first (see -:doc:`install`). It is possible to build PyPy with CPython, but it will take a -lot longer to run -- depending on your architecture, between two and three -times as long. - -Even when using PyPy to build PyPy, translation is time-consuming -- 30 -minutes on a fast machine -- and RAM-hungry. You will need **at least** 2 GB -of memory on a 32-bit machine and 4GB on a 64-bit machine. - - Install build-time dependencies ------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
