Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Aaron Markham
Here's a PR that addresses this, and more, for review: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12388 On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 13:21 Lin Yuan wrote: > When a user chooses to build from source, it is reasonable to infer that > they want to run the make process and install the python package >

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Lin Yuan
When a user chooses to build from source, it is reasonable to infer that they want to run the make process and install the python package subsequently. The current automated build script is confusing in that I really have no idea what I should do if I want to change some of the source code in MXNet

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Naveen Swamy
The automated script served its purpose when MXNet PyPi package was not regularly maintained, the script made it simple for users when they had to build from source to get the latest. Now that we have a pypi package and build from source is something that the developers need, I have to agree that

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Bhavin Thaker
The automated build script on macOS was written with the intention to have an automated, easy and quick way to build and install MXNet by any user, new-bie or advanced. The build script aims to provide repeatability and an easy way to test the build instructions. Without the script, the build inst

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Afrooze, Sina
+1 on fully automated scripts being more confusing than helpful. It's difficult to debug any issues when the entire instruction is to run a single script. - Sina On 8/28/18, 9:46 AM, "Lin Yuan" wrote: Aaron, I agree the installation page is very confusing to me. When I first t

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-28 Thread Lin Yuan
Aaron, I agree the installation page is very confusing to me. When I first tried to build MXNet from source on MacOS, I was totally confused about the instruction. Why was it vastly different from building from source on Linux given these two OS have similar shell commands. I feel the automatic sc

Re: build from source instructions

2018-08-27 Thread Steffen Rochel
Aaron - we should keep instructions how to build from source. Updating and re-organizing makes sense to me. Steffen On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM Aaron Markham wrote: > Hello, > I was looking into the C++ instructions and came across this seemingly > pretty old page: > https://mxnet.incubator.

build from source instructions

2018-08-27 Thread Aaron Markham
Hello, I was looking into the C++ instructions and came across this seemingly pretty old page: https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/build_from_source I think it has several inaccuracies as different/updated installation info has been added to different pages. Should it be deleted? Or shoul