how to build a generic linux binary from source?

[Hongbo Rong]

Hello,

I have a scenario to run Julia on a machine that does not allow web access. Since I have a working directory of Julia source, I am wondering if it is easy and how to build a generic linux binary from it, like that in the Julia nightly build system?

BTW: I cannot just use the Julia nightly build, as we have some code not compatible with it.

Thanks,

Hongbo

[Jameson Nash]

set JULIA_CPU_TARGET=<something compatible with the target computer such as core2> in your Makefile before building the sys.ji file (or delete usr/lib/julia/*, add that line to Make.user, and redo the build).

then you can call `make dist` to create a nice little redistributable tarball.

[Hongbo Rong]

Thanks for the useful info, Jameson. I tried the second approach. It works great.