From 0c6d33df48849a6a23eda81a6f7b46527df832f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Viral B. Shah" Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:01:26 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Remove non-git method of building from source. Git is now a required dependency for downloading and building julia. Close #474 Close #486 --- README.md | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fbbd1a6c13108..76ef493601725 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ First, acquire the source code either by cloning the git repository (requires ** git clone git://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git -or, if you don't have git installed, by using wget and tar to fetch and unpack the source: - - mkdir julia && wget -O - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tarball/master | tar -zxf- -C julia --strip-components 1 - Next, enter the `julia/` directory and run `make` to build the `julia` executable. When compiled the first time, it will automatically download and build its [external dependencies](#Required-Build-Tools-External-Libraries). This takes a while, but only has to be done once. @@ -98,8 +94,9 @@ Buliding Julia requires that the following software be installed: - **[GNU make]** — building dependencies. - **[gcc, g++, gfortran][gcc]** — compiling and linking C, C++ and Fortran code. +- **[git]** — contributions and version control. - **[perl]** — preprocessing of header files of libraries. -- **[wget]** or **[curl]** — to automatically download external libraries (Linux defaults to `wget`, OS X and FreeBSD to `curl`). +- **[wget]** or **[curl]** — to automatically download external libraries (Linux defaults to `wget`, OS X and FreeBSD to `curl`). With the exception of `gfortran`, these are standard on most Linux systems and on any OS X system with `Xcode` and Apple's Developer Tools installed. Julia uses the following external libraries, which are automatically downloaded and compiled from source (or in a few cases, included in the Julia source repository) the first time you run `make`: