This shell script automates the entire process of installing the latest binary snapshot on a mac: https://gist.github.com/sunetos/d887188e1429b11fd4da
Just add it to your PATH somewhere and run whenever you want the latest version. On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 6:04:30 PM UTC-4, Cameron McBride wrote: > > On newer OSes (10.9 for example), I rarely have to do a full compile / > build with Julia. The first time takes a while for all the deps, but over > 9/10 times all that is needed is: > - git pull > - make clean > - make > > Sometimes a "make cleanall" is required, which would be slow but was also > rare (when I was on 10.6, this was required more frequently, which I never > dug into). > > Cameron > > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Adam Smith > <swiss.arm...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I'm on a 2012 Macbook Air and I run julia v0.3 nightly builds. Building >> Julia myself on this machine takes forever, so I just download the nightly >> build from http://status.julialang.org/download/osx10.7+ about once a >> week. >> >> I then drag it into /Applications and rename it from its commit hash >> version to "Julia-0.3.0-prerelease" (and move/delete the prior build). With >> this line in my ~/.profile, the new binary is available in my path so I can >> just run "julia" in any terminal: >> export PATH=/Applications/Julia-0.3.0-prerelease.app/Contents/Resources/ >> julia/bin:$PATH >> >> This is a pretty quick process that does not require crippling my laptop >> for 10+ minutes while it builds. >> >> >> On Friday, May 16, 2014 8:32:38 AM UTC-4, Jon Norberg wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been using julia and ijulia for a while and everything worked >>> fine. over time I get more and more issues, trying to upgrade/reinstall etc >>> and now I can't get it to work at all anymore. As I intend to reinstall osx >>> anyway, I was wondering if you good people have any good setup for >>> python/ijulia/julia/juliastudio that is simple to maintain over time. I >>> want to use one version of julia so somehow let julia-studio use that >>> (annoying that they hardcode the julia path to julia-basic...) >>> >>> I was ambitious to try to keep a --HEAD version of julia but maybe I >>> will have to settle for a latest stable pre-release version to avoid >>> trouble. >>> >>> But I also find that sometimes there are issues with the dependencies >>> and libraries, how do you keep those right?.... >>> >>> So how do you people keep julia smoothly updating and working. Are you >>> using brew, anaconda, enthought, for the python part, are you using xcode >>> compiler or others, are you building julia yourself... >>> >>> I'd appreciate any help in setting this up for the longer run than I >>> have been able to keep it working so far. >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >>> >>> >
