From 7447e49556fc8f91cc7ca02f8336eec1974e3397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: goelakash Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:00:13 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Fix-15074: Added OS info about building from source in README --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5d44ff535423df..baafefbd42eb66 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ By default you will be building the latest unstable version of Julia. However, m git checkout release-0.4 -Now run `make` to build the `julia` executable. To perform a parallel build, use `make -j N` and supply the maximum number of concurrent processes. +To build on Linux, OSX(with **make** utility installed) or other *nix systems, run `make` to build the `julia` executable. To perform a parallel build, use `make -j N` and supply the maximum number of concurrent processes. + 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. If the defaults in the build do not work for you, and you need to set specific make parameters, you can save them in `Make.user`. The build will automatically check for the existence of `Make.user` and use it if it exists. Building Julia requires 1.5GiB of disk space and approximately 700MiB of virtual memory.